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Epilepsy

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Notes = A disorder characterized by recurrent episodes of paroxysmal brain dysfunction due to a sudden, disorderly, and excessive neuronal discharge. Epilepsy classification systems are generally based upon: (1) clinical features of the seizure episodes (e.g., motor seizure), (2) etiology (e.g., post-traumatic), (3) anatomic site of seizure origin (e.g., frontal lobe seizure), (4) tendency to spread to other structures in the brain, and (5) temporal patterns (e.g., nocturnal epilepsy).,Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 4350 Collections and/or Records:

PR2.2692, 1943-1945

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.2692
Scope and Contents

Reports and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 14 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: concussion; head injury; leg fracture; and epilepsy. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1943-1945

PR2.2696, 1944

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.2696
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to female patient from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 6 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: epilepsy; blindness; and birth injury. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1944

PR2.2699, 1944-1945

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.2699
Scope and Contents

Notes and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 0 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: birth cerebral injury; brain damage; and epilepsy. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1944-1945

PR2.2704, 1944-1960

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.2704
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, charts, reports, notes and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 15 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: cerebral dysrhythmia; catalepsy; and epilepsy. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1944-1960

PR2.2705, 1944

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.2705
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, chart, notes and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 35 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: gunshot wound; dizziness; vertigo; and epilepsy. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1944

PR2.2710, 1944-1945

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.2710
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, chart and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 16 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: epilepsy. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1944-1945

PR2.2716, 1944

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.2716
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary and chart relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 4 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: epilepsy; thrombophlebitis; hemiparesis; and encephalitis. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1944

PR2.2729, 1944-1951

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.2729
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 23 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: epilepsy. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1944-1951

PR2.2730, 1944-1945

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.2730
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, chart and correspondence relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 56 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: epilepsy; and fits. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1944-1945

PR2.2731, 1944

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.2731
Scope and Contents

Notes, report and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 62 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: memory defect; head injury; epilepsy; and heredo-degenerative disease. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1944