Professor (Endocrinology)

Email: omkar.parshad@uwimona.edu.jm

Research Interest:

• Sedative effects of crude extract of neem plant.

• Thyroid gland, pregnancy, and post-partum depression.

Selected Publications

• Wray, Samuel R., N Hernandez and Omkar Parshad. Editors. " Brain, Function, Behaviour, Drugs and Disease: Neuroscience in the Caribbean. Kingston, Jamaica: Medical and Scientific development trust and Caribbean Brain research Organization, 2000.
• Parshad, Omkar., Lauriann E. Young and Ronald Young. " Medicinal plants containing sedative activity with special reference to Neem (Azadirachta indica, A Juss)." Brain, Function, Behaviour, Drugs and Disease: Neuroscience in the Caribbean. Editors: Samuel R. Wray, N. Hernandez and Omkar Parshad. Kingston, Jamaica: Medical and Scientific Development Trust and Caribbean Brain research Organization, 2000. 78-85.
• Parshad, Omkar. " Physiological actions of leaf extracts of Azadirachta indica (Neem) in male rats." Utilization of natural products in developing countries : trends and Needs. Editors Ajai mansingh, Ronald E. Young, trevor H. Yee, Rupika Delgoda, Dwight E. Robinson, Errol Y. Morrison and Henry I. Lowe. Kingston, Jamaica: The Natural Products Institute, 2002.