NEUROLOGY
The
specialty of Neurology started in 1966 and was upgraded to a Department
in 1998. The DM course was started in 1976. The major research
activities are in the areas of withdrawal of antiepileptic therapy,
profile of Vito B 12 deficiency, clinicoradiological study of
paraplegia and quadriplegia, profile of chronic epilepsy. The
laboratory services offered by the Department for patient care and
research are EEG, NCV, EMG, Evoked Potential studies, muscle and nerve
biopsy, genetic analysis in collaboration with other centers. The
department has been visited by distinguished guests like Dr N H Wadia,
Jaslok Hospital, Mumbai and others. The Department plans to start I st
Movement Disorder and Headache Clinic in UP and to upgrade the
electro-physiology lab.
