The chronicles of modern movement disorders in India

Prashanth L Kukkle; Hee Kyung Park; Mona T Obaid; Shinshuki Fujioka

doi:10.4103/AOMD.AOMD_15_18

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Year : 2019 | Volume : 2 | Issue : 1 | Page : 1-8

The chronicles of modern movement disorders in India

Prashanth L Kukkle¹, Hee Kyung Park², Mona T Obaid³, Shinshuki Fujioka⁴
¹ Center for Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders, Institute of Neurosciences, Vikram Hospital, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
² Center for Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders, Institute of Neurosciences, Vikram Hospital, Bangalore, Karnataka, India, Department of Neurology, Ewha Womans University Medical Center, Seoul, South Korea
³ Center for Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders, Institute of Neurosciences, Vikram Hospital, Bangalore, Karnataka, India, Director Movement Disorders Program, Neurology Department, National Neuroscience Institute , King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
⁴ Center for Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders, Institute of Neurosciences, Vikram Hospital, Bangalore, Karnataka, India, Department of Neurology, Fukuoka University, Fukuoka, Japan

Correspondence Address:
Dr. Prashanth L Kukkle
Center for Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders, Vikram Hospital, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
India

Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None

DOI: 10.4103/AOMD.AOMD_15_18

Movement Disorders are currently growing to be one of the major subspecialties of neurology worldwide, primarily by developments of research and therapeutics in this field. As any specialty grows, it leads to the formation of its society and the publication of journal to disseminate the knowledge. The International Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders Society (IPMDS, formerly known as Movement Disorders Society) played its role with inception since 1980s. Further development of Movement Disorders subspecialty leads each region and country to have their own national societies and publications. Similarly, the seeds of Movement Disorders were sown in India in mid-1980s but it took a major stride in last few years with the formation of Movement Disorders Society of India (MDSI) in 2014 and following this, it is now at the crux of starting its journal—Annals of Movement Disorders (AOMD). This would be a right time to look back into the history of Indian Neurology with specific reference to the Movement Disorders and pen down these chronicles since the inception of modern neurology in India. The current chronicles of Indian Movement Disorders is penned based on personal interviews with various senior Movement Disorder specialists of India. However, it should also be remembered that many of the chronicles are limited by the memories of people and their biases with whom the interviews are conducted.

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