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Aetiologies of altered states of consciousness: a prospective hospital-based study in a series of 464 patients of northern TanzaniaAndrea Sylvia Winkler
Interdisciplinary Centre for Palliative Medicine and Department of Neurology, Ludwig Maximilians University, Marchioninistrasse 15, 81377 Munich, Germany
J Neurol Sci 300:47-51. 2011..Empirical knowledge suggests that altered states of consciousness are common in sub-Saharan Africa. However, to date prevalence studies are scarce...- Neurocysticercosis in sub-Saharan Africa: a review of prevalence, clinical characteristics, diagnosis, and managementAndrea Sylvia Winkler
Technical University of Munich, Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Pathog Glob Health 106:261-74. 2012.... 
Attitudes towards African traditional medicine and Christian spiritual healing regarding treatment of epilepsy in a rural community of northern TanzaniaAndrea Sylvia Winkler
Department of Neurology, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany
Afr J Tradit Complement Altern Med 7:162-70. 2010..Factors influencing this belief system have been identified and are discussed...- Belief systems of epilepsy and attitudes toward people living with epilepsy in a rural community of northern TanzaniaAndrea Sylvia Winkler
Interdisciplinary Centre for Palliative Medicine and Department of Neurology, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany
Epilepsy Behav 19:596-601. 2010..In summary, supernatural and more scientific ideas about the causes of epilepsy seem to coexist. Nevertheless, there is considerable stigma toward PWE, which needs to be interpreted within the sociocultural context of the study... - The pattern of neurosurgical disorders in rural northern Tanzania: a prospective hospital-based studyAndrea Sylvia Winkler
Interdisciplinary Centre for Palliative Medicine and Department of Neurology, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany
World Neurosurg 73:264-9. 2010..The aim of our study was to assess the hospital-based prevalence of neurosurgical disease in the setting of rural sub-Saharan Africa... - Clinical characteristics of people with head nodding in southern TanzaniaAndrea S Winkler
Interdisciplinary Centre for Palliative Medicine and Department of Neurology, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany
Trop Doct 40:173-5. 2010.... - Restless legs syndrome in a population of northern Tanzania: a community-based studyAndrea Sylvia Winkler
Interdisciplinary Centre for Palliative Care and Department of Neurology, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany
Mov Disord 25:596-601. 2010..Because of methodological limitations a definite prevalence may only be calculated from larger population-based studies of different African ethnicities with screening questions adapted to the cultural context... - Parkinsonism in a population of northern Tanzania: a community-based door-to-door study in combination with a prospective hospital-based evaluationAndrea Sylvia Winkler
Palliative Medicine and Department of Neurology, Ludwig Maximilians University, Marchioninistrasse 15, 81377 Munich, Germany
J Neurol 257:799-805. 2010..The prevalence of PD in northern Tanzania was found to be very low. This result would need confirmation in studies with larger populations, ideally of different African ethnicities... - Epilepsy and neurocysticercosis in sub-Saharan AfricaAndrea Sylvia Winkler
Interdisciplinary Centre for Palliative Medicine and Department of Neurology, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany
Wien Klin Wochenschr 121:3-12. 2009..NCC clearly represents a major risk factor of epilepsy, thus detecting and treating NCC may help cure epilepsy in millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa... - Prevalence, incidence, and clinical characteristics of epilepsy--a community-based door-to-door study in northern TanzaniaAndrea S Winkler
Interdisciplinary Centre for Palliative Care and Department of Neurology, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany
Epilepsia 50:2310-3. 2009..The main aim of this door-to-door-study was to determine the prevalence, incidence, and clinical characteristics of epilepsy in northern Tanzania... - The prevalence of headache with emphasis on tension-type headache in rural Tanzania: a community-based studyAs Winkler
Interdisciplinary Centre for Palliative Care and Department of Neurology, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany
Cephalalgia 29:1317-25. 2009..However, the prevalence of primary headache seems to be lower than in Western countries... - Neurological disorders in rural Africa: a systematic approachAndrea Sylvia Winkler
Interdisciplinary Centre for Palliative Medicine, Department of Neurology, Ludwig Maximilians University, Marchioninistrasse 15, 81377 Munich, Germany
Trop Doct 39:102-4. 2009..We suggest three major categories for neurological disorders (group 1=no diagnostic uncertainties; group 2=minor diagnostic uncertainties; group 3=major diagnostic uncertainties) with clinical implications... - The pattern of epilepsy in a rural African hospital - an approach adapted to local circumstancesAndrea Sylvia Winkler
Interdisciplinary Centre for Palliative Medicine and Department of Neurology, Ludwig Maximilians University, Marchioninistrasse 15, 81377 Munich, Germany
Trop Doct 39:44-7. 2009..Clinical implications are discussed... - Epilepsy and neurocysticercosis in rural Tanzania-An imaging studyAndrea Sylvia Winkler
Department of Neurology, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany
Epilepsia 50:987-93. 2009..In developing countries, neurocysticercosis (NCC) is a common cause of epilepsy. Most of the work on NCC and epilepsy has been compiled in Latin America. To date, comprehensive neuroimaging studies are missing in sub-Saharan Africa... - Anticysticercal and antitoxocaral antibodies in people with epilepsy in rural TanzaniaAndrea Sylvia Winkler
Department of Neurology, University of Ulm, Oberer Eselsberg 45, 89081 Ulm, Germany
Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 102:1032-8. 2008..In our study anticysticercal antibodies in both serum and CSF were associated with active NCC in PWE, whereas there was no relationship between antitoxocaral antibodies and epilepsy... - The head nodding syndrome--clinical classification and possible causesAndrea S Winkler
Department of Neurology, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany
Epilepsia 49:2008-15. 2008..Decades later, "nodding disease," reminiscent of what was seen in Tanzania, was reported from Sudan. To date this seizure disorder has not been classified and possible causes still remain obscure... - In-hospital risk estimation in children with malaria--early predictors of morbidity and mortalityAndrea Sylvia Winkler
Department of Neurology, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany
J Trop Pediatr 54:184-91. 2008..A reliable but easy system for disease severity assessment would help to fast track seriously ill children and provide suitable therapies for different patient groups...