Research Papers, Publications and Book Chapters

• Kishore A, Sturm M, Soman Pillai K et al. Resequencing the complete SNCA locus in Indian patients with Parkinson's disease. NPJ Parkinsons Dis. 2024 Apr 15;10(1):85. doi: 10.1038/s41531-024-00676-4. PMID: 38622158; PMCID: PMC11018851.
• Saini A, Holla VV, Kalikavil Puthanveedu D, Mehta S, Elavarasi A, Pillai KS et al. Novel PANK2 Variant in Asian Indians with Atypical Pantothenate Kinase Associated Neurodegeneration. Mov Disord. 2024 May;39(5):920-923. doi: 10.1002/mds.29737. Epub 2024 Mar 20. PMID: 38506547.
• Pillai Kanchana S; Misra, Shubham; Siripurapu, Govinda; Aliyar Aminu; Bhat Priyanka; Rajan Roopa; SrivastavaAchal; Goyal Vinay; Venkitachalam Anil; RadhakrishnanDivya M. De Novo Movement Disorders Associated with COVID-19- A Systematic Review of Individual Patients. Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology 26(5):p 702-707, Sep–Oct 2023. | DOI: 10.4103/aian.aian_572_23
• Satish Khadilkar, Mehul Desai, Darshan Pandya, Kanchana Pillai, Sonali Shah, ChandrashekharDeopujari. Spontaneous Intracranial Hypotension. IAN Reviews in Neurology: Stroke and Headache. Jaypee publications. 2023.
• Pillai KS, Bhat P, Srivastava AK, Rajan R, Radhakrishnan DM, Elavarasi A, Srivastava MP, Singh MB, Vishnu VY, Prasad K, Pandit AK, Goyal V. Zonisamide add-on in tremor-dominant Parkinson's disease- A randomized controlled clinical trial. Parkinsonism Relat Disord. 2022 Dec; 105:1-6. doi: 10.1016/j.parkreldis.2022.10.017. Epub 2022 Oct 25. PMID: 36323130.
• Soman Pillai K, Maramattom BV, Gopalannair Santhamma S, Kishore A. Head Drop and Trunk Flexion as an Early Manifestation of Anti-IgLON5 Disease. Movement Disorders Clinical Practice. n/a(n/a). doi:10.1002/mdc3.13575
• Radhakrishnan DM, Pillai KS, Das A, Rajan R, Srivastava AK. Unraveling movement disorders in spinocerebellar ataxia. Annals of Movement Disorders. 2022;5(2):93. doi:10.4103/AOMD.AOMD_61_21
• Pillai KS, Thakre M, Asole D, Venkitachalam A, Sundar U, Sankhe AP, Joshi AR, Firke VP. Teaching Video NeuroImage: Congenital Hemidystonia-Hemi-midbrain Atrophy Syndrome. Neurology. 2022 May 17;98(20):860-861. doi: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000200513. Epub 2022 Mar 29. PMID: 35351787.
• Pillai KS, Vibha D, Gupta P, Sudheer P, Mishra B, Oinam RS, Mohan A, Tayade K, Srivastava P, Tripathi M, Srivastava AK, Bhatia R, Rajan R, Pandit AK, Singh RK, Elavarasi A, Agarwal A, Gupta A, Das A, Radhakrishnan DM, Ramanujam B, Soni KD, Aggarwal R, Wig N, Trikha A. Comparison of Disease Profiles and Three-Month Outcomes of Patients with Neurological Disorders with and without COVID-19: An Ambispective Cohort Study. Ann Indian Acad Neurol. 2022 Mar-Apr;25(2):218-223. doi: 10.4103/aian.aian_602_21. Epub 2022 Mar 1. PMID: 35693663; PMCID: PMC9175394.
• Suvorit Bhowmick, Kanchana Pillai, Divya MR, Aneesha Thomas. Approach to Movement Disorders in Systemic Diseases In: Sujith Ovallath, The Essentials of Movement Disorders: A Problem Based Approach. New York: Nova Publishers, 2021, page 327- 374
• Kanchana S Pillai. Management of first seizure- clinical overview. In: ClinicalKey. Elsevier; April 2022. https://www.clinicalkey.com/now/in/content/76-s2.0-in_en_first_seizure_management#hl0000199
• Kanchana S Pillai. Gait disorders- decision tree. In: ClinicalKey. Elsevier
• Shakywar M, Pillai K, Singh RK, Prabhakar A, Dash D, Bhatia R, et al. Opercular Syndrome Presenting as Trismus: An Interesting Finding. Ann Indian Acad Neurol. 2020 Jun;23 (3):417–8.
• Kanchana Pillai, Shubham Misra, Govinda Siripurapu, Aminu Aliyar, Roopa Rajan, Achal Srivastava, Divya M Radhakrishnan. Systematic Review of Movement Disorders in COVID-19. (International MDS Congress, Madrid, Spain, September 2022)
• Kanchana Pillai, Boby Varkey Maramattom, Sandeep Grover, Asha Kishore. A novel compound heterozygous PANK2 gene mutation in a South- Asian sexagenarian with atypical PKAN (International MDS Congress, Madrid, Spain, September 2022)
• Pillai KS, Trivedi TH, Moulick ND. Hyponatremia in ICU. J Assoc Physicians India. 2018 May;66(5):48–52.
• Pillai KS, Trivedi TH, Moulick ND; A review of acute poisoning cases admitted in the MICU of a tertiary care hospital; International Journal of Recent Trends in Science and Technology September 2017; 24(2): 51-55.

Paper / Poster Presentations in national and international conferences

• Brain MRI morphometry and regional hypometabolism in the predominance-subtypes of Progressive Supranuclear Palsy- International Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders Congress, Copenhagen, Denmark- August 2023.
• MER length as a predictor of motor and non-motor outcomes of STN DBS in Parkinson’s disease- International Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders Congress, Copenhagen, Denmark- August 2023.
• Young scientist presentation: Novel mutations in GRN, SQSTM1 and ADH1C —A case series of familial dementia with parkinsonism- Precision Medicine in Parkinson’s disease conference- Luxembourg, January 2023
• Case presentation in the virtual MDS School for Young Neurologists- October 2021
• Poster presentation in the virtual 25th World Congress of Neurology 2021, October 2021
• Poster presentation in MDSICON 2020 (Kovalam)- A case of adult- onset PLAN
• Paper Presentation in IANCON 2019 (Hyderabad)- Clinical and Electrophysiologic Characteristics of Tremor in Tremor Dominant Parkinson’s Disease Patients
• Poster Presentation in MDSICON 2019 (Delhi)- Jerky Man Syndrome
• Paper presentation in 72nd Annual Conference of The Association of Physicians of India (APICON 2017), January 2017, Mumbai.
• Poster presentation in 72nd Annual Conference of The Association of Physicians of India (APICON 2017), January 2017, Mumbai.
• Paper Presentation in All India Students’ Medical Conference (TRINITY 2016), February 2016, Mumbai.
• Poster presentation in 72nd Annual Conference of Bombay Medical Congress, February 2016.
• Poster presentation in 71st Annual Conference of The Association of Physicians of India (APICON 2016), January 2016, Hyderabad

Awards

• Best resident paper presentation award- “Mirror movements- An interesting Clinical Sign”, Bombay Neurosciences Association, November 2021.
• Distinction in DM Neurology (83.33%), December 2020
• Quiz - AIIMS- PGI Neurology update (EEG quiz)- Virtual Conference, November 2020 (1st prize)
• Quiz - MDSICON, February 2020 held in Kovalam (2nd Prize).
• Quiz - AIIMS- PGI Neurology up date, April 2019 held in PGI Chandigarh (3rd Prize)
• Quiz -72nd Annual Conference of Bombay Medical Congress, February 2016 (1st prize)
• Dr. Jaykar MD final year inter-college practical exam (2nd prize)
• Dr. Rahul Ambedkar Memorial 3rd Year M.D. Medicine Dissertation Award (2nd prize)
• Recipient of Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana (KVPY) fellowship by Directorate of Science and Technology, Government of India
• Recipient of Certificate of Distinction in Dr. Homibhabha Bala Vaidnyanik Science Talent Search Competition.
• All India Atomic Energy Quiz competition- 1st place
• Selected for the Junior Science Olympiad (JSO) camp