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  • Rosman KD, Jacobs HA, van der Merwe CA. A new multiple sclerosis epidemic? A pilot survey. S Afr Med J. 1985; 68: 162-163.

  • Rosman KD. The epidemiology of stroke in an urban black population. Stroke 1986; 17: 667-669.

  • Rosman KD. Aspects of stroke. SA J Physiotherapy 1987; 43: 5-8

  • International Stroke Trial Collaborative Group. The International Stroke Trial (IST): a randomized trial of aspirin, subcutaneous heparin, both, or neither among 19435 patients with acute ischaemic stroke. Lancet 1997; 349: 1569-1581.

  • Ebrahim I. The three faces of Memory Disorder; Health and Aging, 2000, 14:24 -27;

  • Ebrahim I O, Howard R S, Kopelman M D, Sharief M K, and Williams A J.  The hypocretin/orexin system. J R Soc Med 2002 95: 227-230;

  • Ebrahim I O, de Lacy S, Semra Y K, Howard R S, Sharief M K, and Williams A J. CSF Hypocretin levels in Neurologic and Psychiatric conditions, SLEEP 2002; 25: A378 (Abst);

  • Ebrahim I O, de Lacy S, Semra Y K, Howard R S, Sharief M K, and Williams A J. Narcolepsy with cataplexy, Monosymptomatic Narcolepsy and Primary Hypersomnia: A prospective study in 24 patients including CSF hypocretin levels, SLEEP 2002; 25: A353(Abst);

  • Ebrahim I. Memory Disorders in Psychiatric Practice, BJPsych 2002; 181: 177-178;

  • Ebrahim I O, Sharief MK, de Lacy S, Semra YK, Howard RS, Williams AJ. Hypocretin (Orexin) Deficiency in Narcolepsy and Primary Hypersomnia. JNNP 2003; 74(1): 127-130;

  • Ebrahim I O, Williams AJ, et al. CSF Hypocretin (Orexin) in Neurological and Psychiatric disorders. JSR 2003; 12(1).

  • Ebrahim I O, Fisher JP, de Lacy S, Williams AJ. A prospective, randomized, trial comparing the effectiveness of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Pharmacologic Treatment and Combination therapy in patients with Primary Insomnia. SLEEP (2003)
  • Williams AJ, Oka Y, Howard RS, Soliman MGG, de Lacy S, Ebrahim I O REM Sleep Behaviour Disorder - Characteristics of a series of consecutive referrals to a Specialist Sleep disorders Centre in the UK, SLEEP (2003)

  • Ebrahim I O, de Lacy S, Howard RS, Sharief MK, Williams AJ. CSF Hypocretin (Orexin) in Disorders of Excessive Daytime Sleepiness. SLEEP (2003).

  • Thannickal TC, Mayhew J Blouin A, Nienhuis R, Williams AJ, Ebrahim I O, Siegel JM. Distribution of Hypocretin (Orexin) Immunoreactivity in the Hypothalamus of Normal and Narcoleptic Horse. SLEEP (2004)

  • Orgill JC, Bath J, Ebrahim I O, de Lacy SF, Williams AJ. The role of Actigraphy in the study of Sleep and Circadian Rhythms. SLEEP (2004).

  • Ebrahim I O. The Management of Excessive Daytime Sleepiness. Drugs & Therapeutics Bulletin. 2004 June;

  • Nightingale S, Williams AJ, Orgill JC, Ebrahim I O, de Lacy S. The association between narcolepsy and REM behaviour disorder (RBD) Sleep Medicine (2005)

  • Ebrahim I O, Peacock KW. REM Sleep Behaviour Disorder - Psychiatric Presentations: A Case Series from the United Kingdom Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2005

  • Ebrahim I O, Peacock KW, Williams AJ. Post-traumatic Narcolepsy: 2 case reports and a mini-review. Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, Vol. 1, No. 2, 2005

  • Ebrahim I O, Williams AJ, Peacock KW, Maldonado CC. Driver Sleepiness in South African Commercial Drivers: A two stage screening study. SLEEP 28: 165 (2005)

  • Wilson W, Ebrahim I O, Fenwick P, Marks RL. Violence, Sleepwalking and the Criminal Law. Criminal Law Review (August 2005)

  • Ebrahim I O, Wilson W, Fenwick PB, Peacock KW, Marks RL. Sleep related violence, Alcohol, Automatism and the Law. Criminal Law Review (August 2005)

  • Ebrahim I O. Somnambulistic Sexual Behaviour (Sexsomnia). Journal of Forensic Sleep Medicine (2006)

  • Ebrahim I O. Ramelteon: A New Approach to managing Insomnia. Future Neurology January 2008, Vol. 3, No. 1, Pages 9-18

  • Ebrahim I O and Fenwick PB. Sleep Related Automatism. Medicine, Science & the Law, 2008 (in press)

 

 
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