Living with Neurological Disorders of Ataxia and Epilepsy in Ghana: Patients’ Adaptations

Desmond Ayim-Aboagye^*, Evelyn Owusu & Martin Gameli Akakpo

Regent University College of Science and Technology, Department of Human Development and Psychology, Ghana

Dr. Desmond Ayim-Aboagye, Regent University College of Science and Technology, Department of Human Development and Psychology, Ghana.

Keywords: Ataxia; Autoimmune; Caregivers; Coping; Epilepsy; Genetic; Injuries; Neurological Disorders; Proper Treatments; Self-Acceptance; Stigma

Abstract

The need exists for researchers to study the backgrounds of neurological disorders patients and how they cope with their symptoms. Patients often go unnoticed in present-day technological Ghana because of wrong knowledge and attributions. There exists a lack of knowledge, so people wrongly interpret their activities as the workings of some spiritual powers. The study’s objective is to investigate the neurological disorders of Ataxia and Epilepsy in Ghana and to focus on the hereditary transmission of the diseases rather than spiritual causes.

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