ISSN 2213-6320

Editor-in-Chief

Man Mohan MehndirattaJanakpuri Super Speciality Hospital,Janakapuri, New Delhi, India

Board Members

Sangeeta Ravat Department of NeurologySeth G.S. Medical College and K.E.M HospitalMumbai, Maharashtra, India

Atma Ram BansalMedanta-The MedicityInstitue of NeurosciencesGurugram, Haryana, India

Sandeep Kaushal Department of Pharmacology,Dayanand Medical College and HospitalLudhiana, Punjab, India

Pravina U. Shah Fortis HospitalMumbai, Maharashtra, India

Sanjeev V. ThomasDepartment of NeurologySree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and TechnologyTrivandrum, Kerala, India

Jayanti Mani Department of NeurosciencesKokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital and Medical Research InstituteMumbai, Maharashtra, India

Manjari TripathiDepartment of NeurologyAll India Institute of Medical SciencesNew Delhi, India

Satish JainIndian Epilepsy CentreNew Delhi, India

Ajay GargDepartment of Neuroimaging & Interventional NeuroradiologyNeurosciences CentreAll India Institute of Medical sciencesNew Delhi, India

Bindu Menon Department of NeurologyApollo Specialty HospitalsNellore, Andhra Pradesh, India

Sheffali GulatiDivision of Child NeurologyDepartment of PaediatricsAll India Institute of Medical sciencesNew Delhi, India

Ramshekhar N. MenonDepartment of NeurologySree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and TechnologyTrivandrum, Kerala, India

Sita JayalakshmiDepartment of NeurologyKrishna Institute of Medical SciencesSecunderabad, Telangana, India

R. Lakshmi NarasimhanDepartment of Neurology,Institute of NeurologyMadras Medical CollegeChennai, India

Kollencheri P. VinayanDepartment of NeurologyAmrita Institute of Medical SciencesKochi, Kerala, India

Sanjib SinhaDepartment of NeurologyFaculty Neuroscience BuildingBengaluru, Karnataka, India

Goutam GangulyDepartment of NeurologyBangur Institute of NeurosciencesKolkata, West Bengal, India

Arabinda MukherjeeDepartment of NeurologyVivekananda Institute ofMedical ScienceKolkata, India

P. Sarat ChandraDepartment of NeurosurgeryAll India Institute of Medical SciencesNew Delhi, India

Atampreet SinghDepartment of NeurologyFortis HospitalNoida, Uttar Pradesh, India

S. ShanmukhiDepartment of NeurologyKrishna Institute of Medical scienceSecunderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India

Chaturbhuj RathoreDepartment of NeurologySmt. B. K. Shah Medical Institute andResearch CenterSumandeep Vidyapeeth UniversityVadodara, Gujarat, India

Parampreet S. KharbandaDepartment of Neurology,Postgraduate Institute of MedicalEducation & ResearchChandigarh, Punjab, India

International Board Members

Emilio PeruccaDepartment of Internal Medicine andTherapeutics,University of Pavia and C. MondinoNational Neurological Institute,Pavia, Italy

Soheyl NoachtarDepartment of NeurologyUniversity of Munich HospitalLudwig Maximilian UniversityMunich, Germany

Sanjay P. SinghDepartment of Neurology,Creighton University School of Medicine,Nebraska, United States

John W. DunneSchool of Medicine, Royal PerthHospital UnitUniversity of Western AustraliaCrawley, Western Australia

Hasan AzizNational Epilepsy CentreJinnah Postgraduate Medical CentreKarachi, Pakistan

Tan Chong-TinDepartment of MedicineUniversity Malaya Medical CentreKuala Lumpur, Malaysia

International Journal of EpilepsyOfficial Publication of Indian Epilepsy Society

Prachi MehndirattaDepartment of NeurologyVirginia Commonwealth UniversityMedical CenterVirginia, United States

Jaideep KapurDepartment of NeurologyUniversity of Virginia Brain InstituteUniversity of Virginia-HealthSciences CenterVirginia, United States

William E. RosenfeldThe Comprehensive Epilepsy CareCenter For Children And AdultsSt. Louis, United States

Mustafa NazirogluDepartments of Biophysics and NeuroscienceSuleyman Demirel UniversityIsparta, Turkey

Marco T. MedinaDepartment of NeurologyFaculty of Medical SciencesNational Autonomous University ofHondurasTegucigalpa, Honduras

Najib KissaniDepartment of NeurologyHospital Mohamed VIMarrakech, Morocco

John SternUCLA Seizure Disorder CenterEpilepsy Clinical ProgramDepartment of NeurologyLos Angeles, United States

Prakash KotagalPediatric Epilepsy SectionCleveland Clinic FoundationCleveland, United States

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