Nyame P K
University of Ghana Medical School, Accra.
West Afr J Med. 1994 Apr-Jun;13(2):109-12.
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.
对在阿克拉临床诊断和脑电图诊断为患有颞叶癫痫的80名患者的症状进行了研究。症状包括强直和强直阵挛发作、眩晕、幻觉、意识丧失以及各种行为异常。阿克拉颞叶癫痫的症状与其他地方并无不同。强调了迷信在非洲人心理中与癫痫的关系。讨论了异常行为、癫痫和精神病之间的关系。还讨论了病理诊断延迟或不准确的情况。