Lead poisoning is a dangerous condition for many children.  One of the significant signs is the loss of previously mastered skills.  Other symptoms include poor appetite, comprehension and listening delays, learning difficulties and hyperactive behaviors.  The neurological damage is irreversible and hospitalization may occur in severe cases. 

This paper summarizes what Western astrophysics says about the origin and end of the physical universe. It states that this conception of the universe is Eurocentric and challenges Africans to come up with alternative testable hypotheses on the origin, nature of and end of the universe.

Death, where is thy sting? The sting of death lies only in the agonies of separation from physical existence. The sting of death is only in turning physical encounters and interactions only into the realms of memories. The sting of death is only in further mystifying the purpose of existence for those who knew so little. The sting of death is only in creating fear in the minds of those so engrossed with the pleasures of physical existence.

The academic beauty of every student lies in his/her Grade Points Average – which is the aggregate measure of the student's academic performance in all the courses taken in a module or semester. Every academically serious student ensures that he works for a high Cumulative Grade Points Average and subsequently maintains and builds it up.

To revamp and reinvent a new pragmatic philosophy of our university education, and to use our educational system as a tool to instill our citizens with an education that teaches and stresses critical thinking, which is required to deal with issues related to our national development, our education must emphasize novelty, and, it must seek to maximize our children's inherent potentials, which will then foster the atmosphere for progress in our economy, politics and social lives.

This brief paper points out that neurosis is the product of finding ones self and the world absurd and using ones imagination to make them not seem absurd; it says that the neurotic pursuit of ideal self and or superior self are efforts to make the senseless self seem sensible. It concludes that the cure for neurosis lies in accepting the self and world as they are: absurd, and making the most of them through science and technology. The paper considers itself within the spectrum of existentialist psychology and existentialist spirituality.

Seventeen UK newspapers and five television stations, including the great BBC TV and ITV, carried the news of one Mrs Julianah Balogun-Oke, a London resident, Nigerian single mother, whose quadruplets, 18-year old Tobi, Tosin, Tayo and Tolu had all achieved A and B grades in their A Level results at St Francis Xavier Sixth Form College in Clapham, South West London, and as a result, had all been admitted to various Ivy League universities in the UK – Manchester University, Goldsmiths College, St Mary’s University of London and Cambridge University.

Nigerian teachers should know that their country is poor. It’s the reason their govt can’t afford to make them a human. Teaching is only for the dedicated minds; a profession one must fell in love with as against on merely pragmatic grounds. Any teacher who thinks otherwise should quit and join politics, the police or even journalism where they can get Ghana-must-go or collect N20 from motorists or brown envelope from hack writers or crawlers.

This paper examines the impact of what the author calls idealistic personality on human relationships. It contends that the idealistic person rejects his real self, posits an ideal self and desires becoming it. It says that what he does to himself he does to other people; that is, rejects other people and wants them to become ideal persons. The idealistic personality postulates an ideal standard and uses it to judge him and all people and since no human being attains ideal status finds fault with all people.

This paper examines the nature of psychotherapy, the purpose of psychotherapy and looks at some psychotherapy. It introduces Real Self Therapy. Real Self Therapy is a psychotherapy that aims at discovering the human beings real a self and enabling each individual human being to live it. It assumes that there are obstacles to living as the real self and attempts to remove those obstacles so that the individual lives out of his real self.

This paper explores multiple personality disorder, and extrapolates from it to ask existential questions. If one person can have two or more personalities, is it possible for all persons to be the earthly personalities of one unified spirit self?

This paper briefly describes what addiction to mood altering drugs is, how drugs affect the body and how they are treated. Throughout human history people have sought agents to alter their consciousness; they do so for a number of reasons, including feeling good and finding out if life is more than is found in body. Use of mood altering drugs probably would always be part of human beings lives.

This paper looks at some mental health issues found in the older population. These mental health issues are also found in the non-elderly population but require particular attention in regards to how they are handled in elderly persons.

This paper reviews the mental disorders seen in children. Although it refers to Africans the review covers mental disorders seen in children everywhere. This paper is meant for the general public and therefore did not get into etiological speculations.

This paper summarizes what is known about the nature and cause of schizophrenia. Whereas it refers to Africans, it did not say anything specifically about Africans and schizophrenia. This is so because other than the symbols in schizophrenia the disease tends to be the same all over the world. For example, in stating that he is persecuted, an African could say that his ancestors or his people’s spirits are persecuting him, whereas an American could say that the FBI (Police) is persecuting him. The phenomenon of persecution is what is salient, how it is expressed is determined by culture.

This paper summarizes what is known about the nature and cause of delusion disorder. Though it is meant for the general public the word African was appended to it not so much because it addresses African mental health issues but to make it appealing to Africans. Many Africans, unfortunately, have unrecognized and untreated mental health issues, issues that impinge on their public behaviors. Treating those mental health issues, no doubt, would improve the quality of their public discourse.

This brief paper summarizes what is known about the nature and cause of depression and mania. It is meant for all readers; however, the word Africans was added to the title to make it appeal to Africans, though it did not address specific African issues. Many Africans suffer from depression and mania, and may not know it. Africa’s extended family system and tendency not to ostracize the mentally ill protects mentally ill Africans from awareness of the seriousness of their mental health issues. Those mental health issues affect Africans’ public behaviors.

This paper describes the various personality disorders. In psychological literature there is no one accepted causal theory regarding the genesis of personality, normal or abnormal. Different observers have hypotheses as to how the human personality came about, some tilting towards a sociological explanation while others gravitate to biological etiology or a combination of both sociological and biological factors. (See Depue, 2007)

This paper delineates the various types of anxiety disorder. It essentially paraphrases the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the America Psychiatric Association (1994), section on Anxiety Disorders. The paper did not provide causal explanation of anxiety disorders (the writer has done so elsewhere). Whereas a mental health professional may find this brief summary of the various anxiety disorders useful, the paper should be particularly useful for the lay public.

This paper examines how mental health professionals determine their clients’ psychological issues. It examines the nature of intelligence and personality paper and pencil tests, and psychiatric intake verbal examinations. Figuring out folk’s personalities, intelligences and psychological issues in general is not yet a science but this is a task that must be performed; the critical thing is for those performing this task to realize that they are mostly speculating and not engaged in science.

This essay explored the Psychoanalysis of Karen Horney; it appreciates Horney’s accurate description of neurosis. The paper points out that Horney did not provide a true causal explanation of neurosis. The essay says that neurosis and all mental disorders are initially the product of the individual’s inherited body. In this light, body caused mental illnesses. However, in the long run body and the self concept is a product of thinking. A self in us, spirit, and its mind thinks through our bodies and produces what we call our personalities.