Table 1.
Papers excluded from the review
| Reason for exclusion | Number | Author/date |
| Unavailable | 13 | Addo-Kufuor and Osei 1993; Asare and Koranteng 1996; Lamptey 1980; Lamptey 1996; Lamptey 2001a; Lamptey 2000; Lamptey 2001b; Osei 2004; Turkson 1996; Turkson and Dua 1996; Danquah 1979; Lamptey 1981; Agbleze 1970 |
| Opinion piece/obituary | 6 | Adomakoh 1972a; Asare 2001; Ewusi-Mensah 2001; Margetts 1972; Roberts 2001; Rosenberg 2002 |
| Specialised case studies | 3 | Lamptey 1972; Turkson and Asamoah 1999; Turkson 1996 |
| Obsolete treatment methods/diagnosis | 3 | Adomakoh 1973; Forster 1965; Johnson and Majodina 1979 |
| Neuropsychiatric effects of physical conditions |
2 | Dugbartey, Dugbartey and Apedo 1998; Asare 1996 |
| Specialist subfield - mental retardation, older people |
3 | de Graft-Johnson 1964; Turkson 1997; Walker 1982 |
| Epilepsy | 3 | Adomakoh 1972b; Johnson 1980; Turkson 1990 |
| Total | 33 |