Dushyant P Purohit, MD
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ASSOCIATE CLINICAL PROFESSOR | Pathology, Molecular and Cell Based Medicine
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Specialties
Anatomic Pathology and Clinical Pathology
Neurobiology of Neurodegenerative Diseases

The Neuropathology Laboratory and Brain Bank for Neurodegenerative Disorders provide neuropathology support to several federally funded grants for research projects on Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson disease and allied neurodegenerative diseases, and schizophrenia. The laboratory also offers specialized diagnostic reference facility for neurodegenerative disorders. The fully equipped laboratory conducts detailed descriptive studies to document the extent and distribution of various neuropathologic lesions in human brains obtained at autopsy from patients affected by a wide range of neurodegenerative diseases. The resulting characterization of morphologic lesions, diagnosis and clinicopathological correlation of the longitudinally studied cases become an integral part of several grant funded research studies. Our laboratory also has an extensive repository of study material of parkinsonism dementia complex (PDC) of Guam and the recently observed overlap of Alzheimer's disease in the Chamorro, the native inhabitants of Guam and other Marianas islands. Our study also involves the extent of overlap between morphologic changes encountered in other more common neurodegenerative disorders, including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and allied movement disorders, Lewy body dementia, vascular dementia and variants of frontal lobe degeneration. Recently, we have focused our research activity on age-related cognitive disorders in the population of developing countries (or low and middle-income countries, as defined by the World Bank Survey of world economies) under a federally funded clinical and pathologic study on dementia and ageing in India and carry out necessary research capacity building there.

MD, BJ Medical College & Civil Hospital

Residency, Pathology, John Radcliff Hospital

Residency, Pathology, Newcastle General Hospital

Residency, Pathology, Northern General Hospital

Fellowship, Neuropathology, Newcastle General Hospital

Certifications

American Board of Pathology

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