Symptomatology of temporal lobe epilepsy in Accra.
The symptoms of 80 patients diagnosed clinically and electro-encephalographically as suffering from temporal lobe epilepsy in Accra were studied. The symptoms included tonic and tonic-clonic seizures, vertigo, hallucinations, loss of consciousness and various behavioural abnormalities. The symptoms of T. L. E. in Accra are no different from elsewhere. The role of superstition in the African psyche in relation to epilepsy is stressed. The relationship between abnormal behaviour, epilepsy and psychosis is discussed. Delayed or inaccurate pathology are also discussed.
Nyame
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University of Ghana Medical School, Accra.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D001294:Attitude to Health / Q000208:ethnology; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004569:Electroencephalography; D004833:Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D005869:Ghana / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013483:Superstitions; D014505:Urban Population