Neuropathology Simplified

Normal Histology and Commonly Used Stains.- Basic Pathologic Reactions.- Requesting and Interpreting Pathological Tests.- Vascular Diseases.- Infections.- Tumours of Nervous System.- Demyelinating Diseases.- Epilepsy.- Skeletal Muscle Diseases.- Peripheral Nerve Diseases.- Metabolic, Toxic and Nutritional Diseases.- Neurodegenerative Diseases.- Trauma.- Paediatric Diseases.- Autopsy.

Aditya Shivane has been working as a Consultant Neuropathologist in Derriford Hospital, Plymouth since 2009. He graduated from India in 1998. After completing post-graduation (MD, taught) in Pathology from Mumbai University (2001) he worked briefly as a Senior Registrar in the Department of Neuropathology at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), Bengaluru, India, before coming to the UK to undertake specialist Neuropathology training in Leeds. He became a fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists in 2008. His areas of interest include CNS tumours, neuromuscular disorders and ophthalmic pathology.  He is actively involved in teaching neuropathology to undergraduate and postgraduate students and serves as an academic tutor at the Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry (PUPSMD).

Selected publications:

Loss of SOX10 function contributes to the phenotype of human Merlin-null schwannoma cells. Doddrell RD, Dun XP, Shivane A, Feltri ML, Wrabetz L, Wegner M, Sock E, Hanemann CO, Parkinson DB. Brain 2013;136(2):549-63.

Expression of c-Jun and Sox-2 in human schwannomas and traumatic neuromas. Shivane A, Parkinson DB, Ammoun S, Hanemann CO. Histopathology 2013;62(4):651-6.

Macrophagic myofasciitis: a report of second case from UK. Shivane A, Hilton DA, Moate RM, Bond PR, Endean A. Neuropathol Appl Neurobiol 2012;38(7):734-6.

Occurrence and distribution of pilomyxoid astrocytoma. Bhargava D, Sinha P, Chumas P, Al-Tamimi Y, Shivane A, Chakrabarty A, Surash S, Novegno F, Crimmins D, Tyagi AK. Br J Neurosurg 2013;27(4):413-8.

Twenty year review of histopathological findings in enucleated/eviscerated eyes. Saeed MU, Chang BY, Khandwala M, Shivane AG, Chakrabarty A. J Clin Pathol 2006;59(2):153-5.

Cysticercal chronic basal arachnoiditis with infarcts, mimicking tuberculous pathology in endemic areas. Aditya GS, Mahadevan A, Santosh V, Chickabasaviah YT, Ashwathnarayanarao CB, Krishna SS.