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Dr Suvarna Alladi

Professor, NIMHANS

Bio

Dr. Alladi is Professor of Neurology at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences in Bangalore, India where she coordinates a large multidisciplinary service for persons living with dementia. Her main areas of interest are Cognitive Neurology and Brain Health. Dr. Alladi’s work focuses on investigating the complex influence of life-course experiences, especially bilingualism, education, gender, social engagement and skills, on the development of resilience against dementia. To overcome the limited availability of diagnostic tests for dementia in diverse linguistic and educational contexts, she coordinated a country-wide effort to adapt and validate a neurocognitive battery, the ICMR Neurocognitive Toolbox  for different Indian languages.

She leads The Karnataka Brain Health Initiative, an innovative public health project of the Government of Karnataka, which aims to provide a model of care for neurological diseases in low-resource settings and to promote brain health at the grassroot level . She is World Dementia Council Member, Chair of The Alzheimer's Association International Society to Advance Alzheimer's Research and Treatment (ISTAART) International Advisory Council.

Dr. Alladi co-founded the Hyderabad Deccan chapter of the NGO Alzheimer’s and Related Disorders Society (ARDSI) , which provides support, and advocates for families of persons living with dementia . Dr Alladi is Executive Member of the World Federation of Neurology Specialty Group of Aphasia, Dementia and Cognitive Disorders . She is co-founder and Chair of the Cognitive Neurology Association in India that aims to build a robust network of cognitive neurologists and allied specialists to provide a platform for advancing clinical care, training and research in cognitive disorders.

 

Key Publications

  1. Livingston, G., Huntley, J., Liu, K. Y., Costafreda, S. G., Selbæk, G., Alladi, S., ... & Mukadam, N. (2024). Dementia prevention, intervention, and care: 2024 report of the Lancet standing Commission. The Lancet, 404(10452), 572-628.
  1. Steinmetz, J. D., Seeher, K. M., Schiess, N., Nichols, E., Cao, B., Servili, C., ... & Atalell, K. A. (2024). Global, regional, and national burden of disorders affecting the nervous system, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021. The Lancet Neurology, 23(4), 344-381.
  1. Mailankody P, Parthasarathy R, Alladi S et al; Karnataka Brain Health Initiative (KaBHI) Consortium. Effectiveness of a training program in improving knowledge and skills about selected common neurological disorders among primary healthcare doctors: The Karnataka Brain Health Initiative (KaBHI) in India. J Family Med Prim Care. 2024 Sep;13(9):3719-3729.
  1. Venugopal, A., Paplikar, A., Varghese, F. A., Thanissery, N., Ballal, D., Hoskeri, R. M., ... & Alladi, S. (2024). Protective effect of bilingualism on aging, MCI, and dementia: A community‐based study. Alzheimer's & Dementia, 20(4), 2620-2631.
  1. Nuytemans K, Franzen S, Alladi S, Babulal GM et al; ISTAART Frontotemporal Dementia and Related Disorders PIA, ISTAART Diversity and Disparities PIA. Gaps in biomedical research in frontotemporal dementia: A call for diversity and disparities focused research. Alzheimers Dement. 2024 Dec;20(12):9014-9036
  1. Suárez-González A, Rajagopalan J, Livingston G, Alladi S (2021). The effect of COVID-19 isolation measures on the cognition and mental health of people living with dementia: A rapid systematic review of one year of quantitative evidence. EClinicalMedicine. 2021 (31);39
  1. Alladi, S., Rajagopalan, J., Hurzuk, S., Pattabiraman, M., Narendhar, R., Thomas, P. T., ... & Knapp, M. (2022). The dementia care landscape in India: Context, systems, policies and services. STRiDE desk review.
  1. Suárez-González, A., Savage, S. A., Alladi, S., Amaral-Carvalho, V., Arshad, F., Camino, J., ... & O’Connor, C. M. (2024). Rehabilitation Services for Young-Onset Dementia: Examples from High-and Low–Middle-Income Countries. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 21(6), 790.
  1. Jacoby, N., Polak, R., Grahn, J. A., Cameron, D. J., Lee, K. M., Godoy, R., ... & McDermott, J. H. (2024). Commonality and variation in mental representations of music revealed by a cross-cultural comparison of rhythm priors in 15 countries. Nature Human Behaviour, 1-32.
  1. Mok, V. C., Pendlebury, S., Wong, A., Alladi, S., Au, L., Bath, P. M., ... & Scheltens, P. (2020). Tackling challenges in care of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias amid the COVID‐19 pandemic, now and in the future. Alzheimer's & Dementia, 16(11), 1571-1581.
  1. Mekala, S., Paplikar, A., Mioshi, E., Kaul, S., Divyaraj, G., Coughlan, G., ... & Alladi, S. (2020). Dementia diagnosis in seven languages: the Addenbrooke’s Cognitive Examination-III in India. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 35(5), 528-538.
  1. Iyer, G. K., Paplikar, A., Alladi, S., Dutt, A., Sharma, M., Mekala, S., ... & ICMR Neurocognitive Tool Box Consortium. (2020). Standardising dementia diagnosis across linguistic and educational diversity: study design of the indian council of medical research-neurocognitive tool box (ICMR-NCTB). Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 26(2), 172-186.
  1. Alladi, S., & Hachinski, V. (2018). World dementia: one approach does not fit all. Neurology, 91(6), 264-270.
  1. Kalkonde, Y. V., Alladi, S., Kaul, S., & Hachinski, V. (2018). Stroke prevention strategies in the developing world. Stroke.
  1. Kaul, S., Alladi, S., Jabeen, S. A., Bandaru, V. R., Ankem, U., Mekala, S., & Naik, G. S. (2018). Intracranial atherosclerosis is the most common stroke subtype: ten-year data from Hyderabad stroke registry (India). Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology, 21(3), 209-213.
  1. Alladi, S., Bak, T. H., Duggirala, V., Surampudi, B., Shailaja, M., Shukla, A. K., ... & Kaul, S. (2013). Bilingualism delays age at onset of dementia, independent of education and immigration status. Neurology, 81(22), 1938-1944.
  1. Alladi, S., Mekala, S., Chadalawada, S. K., Jala, S., Mridula, R., & Kaul, S. (2011). Subtypes of dementia: a study from a memory clinic in India. Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders, 32(1), 32-38.
  1. Alladi, S., Xuereb, J., Bak, T., Nestor, P., Knibb, J., Patterson, K., & Hodges, J. R. (2007). Focal cortical presentations of Alzheimer's disease. Brain, 130(10), 2636-2645.

Complete List of Published Work:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=alladi+s&sort=date

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