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Aphasia

 Subject
Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings
Scope Note: Notes = A cognitive disorder marked by an impaired ability to comprehend or express language in its written or spoken form. This condition is caused by diseases which affect the language areas of the dominant hemisphere. Clinical features are used to classify the various subtypes of this condition. General categories include receptive, expressive, and mixed forms of aphasia.,Created For = LHSA-Dott

Found in 868 Collections and/or Records:

PR3.394, 1941-1942

 Item
Identifier: LHB40 CC/2/PR3.394
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary and notes relating to male aircraftman second classfromGreat Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 32 at first examination in 1941 Conditions mentioned include: jargon aphasia; head injury; skull fracture; hemiplegia; hemparalysis of spastic type; and hypertonus. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1941-1942

PR3.410, 1941-1943

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Identifier: LHB40 CC/2/PR3.410
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, drawings, charts, correspondence and photographs relating to male corporal fromGreat Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 27 at first examination in 1941 Conditions mentioned include: head injury; compound skull fracture; headache; dizziness; memory defect; intracranial abscess; slight dysphasic disability; amnesia; anosmia; and displaced left eye. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1941-1943

PR3.441, 1941

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Identifier: LHB40 CC/2/PR3.441
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, charts and report relating to male petty officer fromGreat Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 36 at first examination in 1941 Conditions mentioned include: unconsciouness; incontinence; confusion; shoulder fracture; cerebral atrophy; knee injury; dysphasic difficulties; hallucinataions; post concussional organic psychosis; and head injury. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1941

PR3.456, 1941-1942

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Identifier: LHB40 CC/2/PR3.456
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to male sergeant pilot fromGreat Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 25 at first examination in 1941 Conditions mentioned include: severe concussion; post concussional syndrome; memory defect; personality deterioration; confusion; aphasia; scalp wound; incontinence and post traumatic cerebral atrophy. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1941-1942

PR3.457, 1941-1942

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Identifier: LHB40 CC/2/PR3.457
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, reports, notes, correspondence, charts, autopsy report and photographs relating to male lieutenant fromGreat Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 43 at first examination in 1941 Conditions mentioned include: giddiness; headache; vomiting; aphasia; diplopia; homonymous hemianopia; confusion; primary malignant brain tumour; and glioblastoma multiforme. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Dates: 1941-1942

PR3.482, 1942

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Identifier: LHB40 CC/2/PR3.482
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary and notes relating to male privatefromGreat Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 34 at first examination in 1942 Conditions mentioned include: severe cerebral contusion; cerebral atrophy; aphasia; dizziness; intellectual deterioration; memory retention defect; apraxia; agnosia; hypertonicity in right extremities; and head injury. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1942

PR3.499, 1942-1944

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Identifier: LHB40 CC/2/PR3.499
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, correspondence and charts relating to male aircraftman second classfrom Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 30 at first examination in 1942 Conditions mentioned include: concussional head injury; post concussional headache; diplopia; papilloedema; nystagmus; subacute serous meningitis; dysphasia; scalp paraesthesiae; cerebral atrophy; subdural hygroma; and epilepsy. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1942-1944

PR3.531, 1942

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Identifier: LHB40 CC/2/PR3.531
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary and chart relating to male private fromScotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 37 at first examination in 1942 Conditions mentioned include: dysarthria; ataxia; incontinence; homonymous hemianopia; hemi-anaesthesia; hemiparesis; aphasia; cerebral thrombosis; and nystagmus. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1942

PR3.535, 1942

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Identifier: LHB40 CC/2/PR3.535
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, report and correspondence relating to male leading aircraftmanfrom Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 23 at first examination in 1942 Conditions mentioned include: severe cerebral contusion; anxiety neurosis with hysterical features; head injury; headache; amnesia; fractured skull; aphasia; depression; dyslexia; and concussion. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1942

PR3.556, 1942

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Identifier: LHB40 CC/2/PR3.556
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, chart, correspondence and note relating to maleprivate fromGreat Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 24 at first examination in1942 Conditions mentioned include: paraesthesiae; headache; attacks of unconsciousness; focal epilepsy; aphasia; homonymous hallucinations of light; and cirsoid angioma. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1942