Two Bengaluru based researchers bag Gandhi Award in London

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Highlights

  1. Dr Ratnavalli Ellajosyula and Nidhi Dev get the prestigious Gandhi International Fellowship Award.
  2. The CNC has been working on research projects in the fields of dementia.
  3. The Gandhi Fellowship Award was set up by a UK based neuropsychologist Dr Narinder Kapur

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Bengaluru :

Two researchers from Bengaluru have been awarded with the prestigious Gandhi International Fellowship Award by Lord Meghnad Desai in the House of Lords, London, recently.

Dr Ratnavalli Ellajosyula, founder, Cognitive Neurology Clinic (CNC), and Nidhi Dev, Neuropsychologist, CNC, were among the ten doctors and researchers who were honoured. The team was awarded this fellowship for their outstanding research in the fields of dementia.

The CNC has been working on research projects in the fields of dementia that was presented at the mid-year Meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society in London.

Dr Ratnavalli Ellajosyula, a senior consultant neurologist, did her medical and neurological training in New Delhi. She was faculty, Department of Neurology at the National Institute of Mental Health & Neurosciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore for a decade. She started the behavioural neurology clinic there. She has a fellowship in Cognitive Neurology from the University of Cambridge, UK. She was also a research fellow at the University of North Carolina, Chapel hill. Currently, she heads the Memory Clinic at Manipal hospital.

She has more than a decade’s worth experience in cognitive neurology and neuropsychology. Her clinical interests are stroke, neuroinfections and dementia. Her research interests are multilingualism and dementia, breakdown of memory and mechanisms and neural substrates of language. She has several research projects and has published in the area of stroke and cognitive neurology.
Nidhi Dev is a Consultant Neuropsychologist at CNC with her areas of interest being epilepsy, dementia and children with neurological disorders. Her core research emphasis has been on epilepsy in children and in adults.
Dr Ratnavalli and her team study patients with stroke, dementia, head injuries, and encephalitis as well as healthy adults. Their research focuses on the neural underpinnings and mechanisms of cognitive functions like memory, language, and executive functions. Their work primarily involves doing detailed clinical and neuropsychological assessments that aid in accurate diagnosis of neurological conditions, treatment and designing of rehabilitation plans.
The Gandhi Fellowship Award was set up by a UK based neuropsychologist Dr Narinder Kapur in the memory and spirit of Mahatma Gandhi, to promote neuropsychology in India. Dr Kapur is currently visiting Professor of Neuropsychology at University College London.

source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / News Home> City> Bangalore / by Sunitha Rao R / TNN / July 08th, 2016

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