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The paper examined the impact of climate change on epilepsy patients in and out patient that visited Neuropsychiatric Hospital Akure, Ondo State, Nigeria. The main independent variables of interest are temperature and relative humidity as climate the two parameters covering a period of eight years 2010 2017. Data of in and out patients diagnosed with epilepsy and other related cases were sourced from the hospital records. The population of the study is 2873 epilepsy patients that visited the hospital within the period of study, comprising of 143 4.98 age 0 4 years, 447 15.56 age 5 9 years, 963 33.52 age 10 19 years, 983 34.22 age 20 44 years, 273 9.50 age 45 64 years, 36 1.25 age 65 69 years and 28 0.97 age 70 years. And for the purpose of analysis and discussion the population of study was further stratified into Children aged 0 19 years 1553 54.05 , adult aged 20 64 years 1256 43.72 , older adult aged 65 69 years 36 1.25 and elderly aged 70 28 0.97 . Data collected were analyzed with the use of single regression Analysis. The study found climate parameters temperature and relative humidity make population vulnerable to the risk of epilepsy cases and therefore increases their visits to the hospital. There are positive associations between the number of epilepsy patients in the Neuropsychiatric Akure and the increase in the two climate two parameters i.e. temperature and relative humidity . Children aged population are more vulnerable to the risk of epilepsy mental ill health as temperature increases while adult aged population are more vulnerable to the risk of epilepsy mental ill health as relative humidity increases. Among children aged, the age group 10 19 years emerged to be more vulnerable to the risk of epilepsy with increase in temperature while age group 20 44 years among the adult aged emerged to more vulnerable to the risk of epilepsy as relative humidity increases. Generally, Epilepsy developed more in those adults than the children when sum the contributions from the two parameters. The vulnerability of various age groups population to epilepsy cases was not equally distributed throughout the year 2010 2017 and this is an indication that different age groups responded differently to the effects of temperature and relative humidity variability.. The effective strength of relative humidity is on the children and adult aged than others group i.e. older adults and elderly , but more on the adult aged while the effective strength of temperature is seen more on the children aged than others group i.e. Adults, older adults and elderly Jaiyeola O. Paul | Abdullahi Ayegba | Esu S. Ulaetor "Impact of Climate Change on Epilepsy Patients with Age Stratifications: Variability of Temperature and Relative Humidity Effects" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-4 | Issue-2 , February 2020, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd30153.pdf

The paper examined the impact of temperature and relative humidity escalation on mental health of in patient and out patient admitted into Neuropsychiatric Hospital Akure, Ondo State, Nigeria. The main independent variables of interest are temperature and relative humidity covering a period of eight years 2010 2017. Data of in and out patients diagnosed with psychiatric cases were sourced from the from the hospital records. The population of the study is 53616 numbers of patients, comprising of 25160 male and 28456 female patients that visited the hospital from the year within the years of study. Data collected were analyzed with used of single regression and multivariate regression analysis using STATA Software. The study found that climate parameters temperature and relative humidity as a separate variables and the overlapping effect of the two independent increases the vulnerability of male and female patients to the risk of psychiatric cases and increases the numbers of patient visiting the hospital. There were positive associations between the numbers of male female patient and the two parameters as well as between the overlapping effects. Male population are more vulnerable to the risks of psychiatric cases as temperature increase while female population were more vulnerable to the risks of psychiatric cases as relative humidity increases. The impact of the overlapping resultant effects of the two independent variables is more on the male than the female that were visiting the hospital. Male populations were generally more vulnerable to the risks of psychiatric cases than female as the metabolic rate and brain volume increases with temperature. The vulnerability of male and female population to psychiatric cases was not equally distributed throughout the period of study. Male and female population respond differently to the impact of each parameter throughout those years considered and these are considered to be psychological and physiological factor differences in male and female. Out of a total 53616 numbers patients that visited the hospital between 2010 2017 , only 21.28 11,409 are male patients that were diagnosed with psychiatric cases and all together traceable attributed to increased temperature, relative humidity and overlapping effect escalation while only 20.02 10,736 was female that were diagnosed with psychiatric cases and all together traceable attributed to the increased temperature, relative humidity and overlapping effect escalation. In the overall analysis male population were more vulnerable to the risk of psychiatric cases than female as the two independent variables increases. The effective strength of temperature made the numbers of male female populations more vulnerable to the risk of psychiatric cases than the effective strength of relative humidity. Jaiyeola O. Paul | Abdullahi Ayegba | Esu S. Ulaetor "Comparative Analysis of the Impact of Climate Change on Male and Female Mental Health" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-4 | Issue-2 , February 2020, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd30154.pdf

The study was on the brain entropy and brain temperature. The study simply reviewed the research work of other researchers to arrive at a reasonable conclusion of how temperature can impair brain entropy. The brain is the central focus of mental health and the functionality of the brain is a function of brain entropy. The brain entropy is a function of brain temperature. The brain entropy is inversely proportional to temperature. It was discovered that removal of heat from the brain decreases the brain temperature which in turn enhances brain entropy. This heat removal from the brain can be achieved through increase in cerebral blood flow, decrease in intracranial pressure ICP , increase in the cerebral perfusion pressure CPP , increase in the blood vessels radius, increase in the heat conductivity of the tissue, short characteristic length and decrease in the blood viscosity i.e. the arterial blood temperature is much less than brain temperature, heat will be removed from the brain. The following were discovered to promote brain entropy enhancement decrease in temperature, decrease in brain size, and increase in nerves density that gave compressibility to be less than one. Brain entropy is also enhanced when the deviation of internal variation from the equilibrium is small, the system maintain thermodynamic equilibrium signified high brain entropy or decrease in the brain temperature . The brain efficiency is said to be 100 , if the brain is able to maneuver all the neurons in each of the cells to involve in information processing. The probability that the whole neurons are involved in the formation processing is 1, which is equal to the probability of the whole brain. The probability that all the brain nerves will be engaged in the information processing and transmission depends on the brain temperature. Entropy is then the ability of the brain to conveniently maneuver even the complex incoming disorder to get useful information and to relay the information through neurons for decision making. The entropy predicted by the Sackur-Tetrode equation approaches negative infinity as the temperature approaches zero i.e. the brain attains black hole characteristics or Sun at its expiry period . Jaiyeola O. Paul | Abdullahi Ayegba | Irene E. Benibo | Esu S. Ulaetor "The Brain Entropyand Temperature" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-4 | Issue-2 , February 2020, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd30152.pdf