Psychiatric Syndromes Associated with Cerebrovascular Disorders in the African

Abstract

This contribution towards the subject is limited to three of its aspects—namely, the possible aetiological role of inherited predisposition and psychogenic factors (mainly environmental to which the patient is still exposed), the relationship between late endogenous depression and the symptoms of cerebrovascular changes, and prognosis. On the face of it, prognosis of course must ultimately depend on that of the cerebrovascular disorder but apparently hereditary and environmental factors play a more significant role. Inherited predisposition is here assessed in terms of constitutional and personality factors.

Blood pressure, prevalence of hypertension and hypertension related complications in Nigerian Africans: A review

“…Also Lambo et al [51] reported on the association of high blood pressure and mental disorder in elderly psychiatric patients in the Western region.…”

Child development, film evidence, and epidemiological sciences: Elwyn James Anthony and the 1957 Zurich International Congress of Psychiatry

“…He claimed that this encouraged unhelpful understandings of the origins and development of schizophrenia which epidemiology could correct. As with Anthony, Ratanakorn and Yapp, Lambo's interest was not in creating theoretical coherence in diagnostic psychiatric categories via statistics, but in using objective observation methods and statistics to demonstrate shared understandings of human development overall (Lambo, 1956(Lambo, , 1957(Lambo, , 1958). Anthony's film was an important and new form of evidence that international and cross-cultural researchers used to challenge both racist and culturally biased methodological approaches to human development.…”