Curriculum Vitae

Personal Information:

Name: Dr. Ajay Asranna I P

Designation: Assistant Professor of Neurology

Current Address: Department of Neurology, NIMHANS, Bengaluru. 560026

Phone no: 8943612626. Email: drajayasranna@gmail.com

Academic Qualifications: MBBS, MD (Internal medicine), DM Neurology, Post Doctoral

Fellowship (Epilepsy)

Research and Publications:

1. Asranna A, Menon R, Radhakrishnan A. Referral trends for temporal lobe epilepsy

surgery between 2000 and 2014 in India. Neurol Clin Pract. 2019;9(4):297-303.

2. Asranna A, Jose M, Philip RM, Sarma PS, Thomas SV. Do Anti-Epileptic Drug

modifications after first trimester of pregnancy influence on fetal malformation or

cognitive outcome? Epilepsy Res. 2018;146:121-125.

3. Asranna A, Sureshbabu S, Mittal G et al. Abdominal epilepsia partialis continua in

neurocysticercosis. Epileptic Disord. 2019;21(3):302-306.

4. Ajay Asranna, Aneesh Mohimen, Roopa Rajan, Muralidharan Nair. Neurosarcoidosis

as a cause of longitudinally extensive myelitis: Neuroimaging clues for diagnosis.

Annals of India Neurology DOI: 10.4103/aian.AIAN_162_18

5. Asranna A, Kesav P, Nagesh C, Sreedharan SE, Kesavadas C, Sylaja PN. Cerebral

aneurysms and metastases occurring as a delayed complication of resected atrial

Myxoma: Imaging findings including high resolution Vessel Wall MRI.

Neuroradiology. 2017

6. Nagesh C, Asranna A, KP Divya, Cherian A, Nanda S, Thomas B. Culpable brain

lesion causing complex partial status in Wilson's disease: Deduction by arterial spin

labelled perfusion MRI. Seizure. 2017; 46:50-52.

7. Singhdev J, Asranna A, Sureshbabu et al. Nine syndrome Case report & review of

clinical signs in internuclear ophthalmoplegia. Ann Indian Acad Neurol 2018;21:325

8. Asranna A, Taneja RS, Kulshreshta B. Dyslipidemia in subclinical hypothyroidism

and the effect of thyroxine on lipid profile. Indian J Endocrinol Metab. 2012;

16(Suppl 2):S347-9.

9. Asranna A, Ajit Kumar, Pranita, Atul Goel. Cold agglutinin mediated autoimmune

hemolytic anemia due to acute cytomegalovirus infection in an immunocompetent

adult. Polish Annals of Medicine. Jul 2015

10. Babu SP, Menon RN, Asranna A, et al. Novel genotype-electroclinical phenotype

correlations in sporadic early-onset childhood myoclonic-atonic epilepsy. Neurol

India. 2019;67(1):264-267.

11. Sureshbabu S, Asranna A, Peter S et al. Secondary Narcolepsy Masquerading as

Obstructive Sleep Apnea. Ann Indian Acad Neurol. 2019;22(4):537-538.

12. Micturition reflex epilepsy with tonic seizures – A rare semiology with insights from

magnetoencephalography. Viswanathan L, Bhargava Gautham K, Asranna A et. al.

Seizure; 2020 vol: 76 pp: 107-109

Book Chapters: Chapters titled “Referral for pediatric epilepsy” and “Approach to first

unprovoked seizure in a child” – Book title “Pediatric Epilepsy syndromes- seizures,

syndromes, approach and management” edited by Dr Ashalatha Radhakrishnan and

published by Jaypee publishers.

Presentations and awards:

Bursary award by the ILAE - 11th Asian & Oceanian Epilepsy Congress 2016, Hong

Kong

Bursary award by World Congress of Neurology- 2017, Kyoto, Japan

‘Best Orator’ and winner of zonal round at ‘Torrent Young Scholar Award Neurology

2016’

Best paper award for paper on ‘Android based software application design for

Augmentative Alternative Communication in patients with Amyotrophic Lateral

Sclerosis’ at the Science Fete 2015, SCTIMST

Third prize for platform presentation at the KAN annual conference 8th-9th October 2016,

Kozhikode

Platform presentations at 11th Asian & Oceanian Epilepsy Congress 2016, Hong Kong

and 13th European Congress of Epileptology, Vienna 2018

Invited faculty at the Indian Epilepsy School 2018, Kerala

Invited Faculty at pre EEG workshop KNACON 2020, Belgaum