Doktor Narendra Barad

Dr. Narendra Barad is a Consultant Neurologist and Parkinsonism & Other Movement Disorders Specialist at CIMS Marengo Hospital, Ahmedabad and has an experience of 13 years in this field. He has extensive experience and expertise in treating cases of Parkinsonism, MSA, PSP, Atypical Parkinsonism, DLBD, Dystonia, Blepharospasm, Hemi facial spasm, Chorea, Ataxia, Epilepsy, Myoclonus, Tics, and Sleep Problems. He also has vast experience in procedures like Botulinum injections and DBS Programming.

He has completed his Movement Disorders training from Prestigious and well known “Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London, UK”. He has done his Botulinum Injection training for various dystonia, spasticity and other diseases from the same institute. During this training, he also attended DBS procedure, DBS OPD, Ward round and DBS Programming with DBS (Deep Brain Stimulation) team of National Hospital of Neurology & Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London.

He has done his DNB Neurology from Reputed P.D Hinduja Hospital of Mumbai. He has completed his MBBS & MD (Internal medicine) from the Asia’s Largest and renowned institute, B J Medical college and Civil Hospital, Ahmedabad.

Experience

• Experience of more than 9 years of handling various cases of sub speciality of Neurology like:
  • Parkinsonism
  • Dystonia
  • Ataxia & Related Disorders
  •  Deep brain stimulation
  • (DBS) programming
  • Tics & Stereotypes
  • Botulinum injections
  • Sleep related Problems (RBD) 
  •  Dementia with Psychosis
  • Chorea
  • Myocionus

Professional Membership

• International Movement Disorders Society (MDS)
• Movement Disorders Society of India (MDSI)
• Indian Academy of Neurology (IAN)
• Ahmedabad Medical Association (AMA)

Achievements, Awards & Honors

• Started Gujarat's first "Deep Brain stimulation program" for Parkinsonism, dystonia and other movement disorders
• Won India's first Gold medal for international best video challenge competition, MDS Denmark, 2021
• Winner of best case of Video  Akhada of MDSICON 2018

Publications

• Barad, N.H., Shah, V., Agarwal, G. and Shah, R. (2022), Syndrome of Tremor, Ataxia Hearing Loss, and Seizure
  in a Young Adult: Think Neurobrucellosis. Mov Disord Clin Pract, 9: S44-S48. https://doi.org/10.1002/mdc3.13536
• Wrote a chapter – An approach to dystonia; Essentials of Movement Disorders – A Problem - Based Approach – Nova science publishers - 2022
• Barad NH. Jerky dystonic tremor: a less-recognized feature of DYT-THAP1. Ann Mov Disord 2021;4:96-8
• Barad, N. Weaver’s dystonia – a novel form of focal task specific dystonia. Mov. Disord. Clin. Pract. mdc3.13018 (2020). doi:10.1002/mdc3.13018
• Dr Baliant, Dr K Bhatia, Dr Anthony Lang, Dr N Barad- Paroxysmal Asymmetric Dystonic Arm Posturing – A less recognized but characteristic manifestation of ATP1A3 – related disease – MDCP May 2019
• Dr R Badheka, Dr N Barad, Dr C Sankhla – Pediatric movement disorders, Review article, Neurology India, 2018
• Dr N Barad, Dr D Asole, Dr C Sankhla – Dystonia, Review Article, Textbook of Indian academy of neurology, 2018
• International Poster presentation – “Prevalence study  of non-motor symptoms in typical and atypical parkinsonism” – October MDSICON, Hong Kong, 2018.
• Dr N Barad, Dr C Sankhla - Acute Pituitary apoplexy after snake bite, a rare but treatable complication – International Journal of Pediatric Neurology 2017