The Neuro-G Project engages in neuroscience education and advocacy in Nigeria, addressing challenges like dropout rates, science enrollment decline, lack of neuroscience background in secondary schools, gender disparity, misconceptions about neurological diseases, and scarcity of neuroscience professionals. Targets include secondary school students in remote or disadvantaged areas, victimized students, and those with neuro-disabilities. University student mentors enhance exposure. The “Neuro-G Club” is a focal approach across 12 schools in Nigeria’s geopolitical zones, offering mentoring, training, exhibitions, the “My-Phone-for-Neuroscience Challenge,” and neuro-facility excursions. The project successfully influenced schools to integrate neuroscience into biology curricula, fostering students’ passion for neuroscience, particularly the target group.
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Kelechi Ezeudensi: Breaking the Wall to Neurohealth Education in Vulnerable Populations
Kelechi Ezeudensi
Kelechi Ezeudensi is a Clinical Neurophysiologist and an Academic staff at the College of Health Sciences, Nnamdi Azikiwe University Nnewi Campus, Nigeria. She holds a B.Sc in Human Physiology and an M.Sc in Neuroimaging. With years of clinical practice and research experience in Neuroscience, Ezeudensi is dedicated to her goal of healing people without conventional drugs, rooting in her personal experience as a victim of misconception around childhood convulsions/seizures and the emotional trauma associated with it.
She leads the Neuro-G project, an initiative from Ganop Community Outreach, advocating against neurological disorders like Seizures/Epilepsy in rural communities. Her mission emphasizes proper diagnosis, understanding, and preventive measures for overall wellness.