Neuropsychiatric Complications of HIV A Challenging Health Concern

Thanks to advances in Anti-Retrovial Drugs (ARTs), HIV is treatable and those who have the disease are often able to lead a normal life. However, as a chronic (and incurable) infectious disease, HIV positive patients are susceptible to neuropsychiatric complications. These complications reduce the quality of life for the individual and exponentially increases the cost of medical care and medications to treat both conditions. Neuropsychiatric Complications of HIV: A Challenging Health Concern examines these neuropsychiatric complications prevalent in those who are HIV positive, providing clinical correlation, translational significance, and details guides to neurocognitive assessment, brain imaging, and related neuropharmacology.

Written for clinicians, researchers, and students working with HIV and AIDS, the book begins with the biology of HIV, a complete look at available ARTs and antibodies, as well as diagnostics tools for HIV. It continues on to the epidemiology of NeuroAIDs and the manifestations of it?cognitive deficits, dementia, depression, agitation, psychosis, and cognitive slowing.

1. HIV and its Biology
2. Anti-Retroviral Drugs
3. HIV and Antibodies: The Catch 22
4. Diagnostic Tools for HIV
5. NeuroAIDS
6. NeuroAIDS: An Epidemological Perspective
7. Neurology of HIV
8. Dementia in AIDS Patients
9. NeuroAIDS: A Neurocognitive Assessment
10. NeuroAIDS: Brain Imaging
11. Neuropathology of NeuroAIDS
12. Neuropharmacology and NeuroAIDS
13. CNS: Entry of HIV
14. HIV Associated Dementia: Viral Loads and its Correlation
15. NeuroAIDS: Contribution of Microglia
16. NeuroAIDS: Contribution of Astrocyles
17. NeureoAIDS: Role of Blood Brain Barrier
18. NeuroAIDS: Role of Cytokines
19. BBB and Neuroinflammation
20. NeuroAIDS: Role of Monocyte and Macrophages
21. HIV Virotoxin
22. Genetics and Epigenetics of NeuroAIDS
23. Neuroinvasion by HIV
24. Antiretroviral Drug: Penetration to Brand

He has published more than thirty articles in peer reviewed journals, co-edited five books, and authored five individual book chapters. Dr. Verma serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of Agricultural and Biological Research, Research Journal of Immunology, International Journal of Virology, Journal of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Journal of Pharmacy and Bioallied Sciences and Advances in Integrative Omics and Applied Biotechnology. He also serves as Chief Editor of Biolixer and is a full member of the Indian Immunology Society, the Association of Microbiologists of India, the Society of Biological Chemists, the Society of Toxicology, the Indian Science Congress, and the Biotechnology Society of India. Dr. Ashish has been an invited guest speaker at numerous international scientific meetings, chaired ten scientific meetings in India and abroad, and received research grants and awards from the Indian Ministry of Education, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the International Union of Immunology, the Weizmann Institute of Science, and the Catholic University of Rome among other organizations.
Dr. Singh teaches biochemistry and immunology to post graduate students at Baranas Hindu University and her research interests and areas of expertise include parasite immunology, immunodiagnostics, animal cell cultures, in vitro assays, and antibiotic resistance in bacteria. Her research has been funded by the Indian Department of Science and Technology and the Indian Department of Biotechnology. She has co-edited five books, authored articles for peer reviewed journals, and authored nine individual book chapters in her various research areas. Additionally, Dr. Singh is a full member of the Association of Microbiologists of India, the Society of Biological Chemists, and AIDSCON and has served as Treasurer of “National Symposium on HIV and AIDS: Biology to Bedside” held at Amity University (2012), the “International Symposium on Frontiers in Cancer Research: