Neurological Disease Burden: Bangladesh Perspective

A neurological perspective on mitochondrial disease.

Disruption of the most fundamental cellular energy process, the mitochondrial respiratory chain, results in a diverse and variable group of multisystem disorders known collectively as mitochondrial disease. The frequent involvement of the brain, nerves, and muscles, often in the same patient, places neurologists at the forefront of the interesting and challenging process of diagnosing and carin...

Global burden of neurological disease: what's in a name?

The role of glia in neurological disease

Glial cells form a network in the central nervous system to support neurons and interact with them. The glia consist essentially of astrocytes that help with the nutrition of neurons and react in some cases of injury, oligodendrocytes that produce myelin, and microglia that are derived from the haemopoietic system and are concerned with the immunological defense of the nervous system. Experimen...

E-Governance: Bangladesh Perspective

Governments, much like businesses, have two major efficiency criteria. First, in the short term it has to reduce the cost of production of the commodities that it produces and second, in the long term, it must also improve the shareholders wealth by increasing its value in the market. In case of governments, both the stakeholders and consumers are the same, the people. And the market also const...

Developing retinal biomarkers of neurological disease: an analytical perspective

The inaccessibility of the brain poses a problem for neuroscience. Scientists have traditionally responded by developing biomarkers for brain physiology and disease. The retina is an attractive source of biomarkers since it shares many features with the brain. Some even describe the retina as a 'window' to the brain, implying that retinal signs are analogous to brain disease features. However, ...