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Anomia

 Subject

Staff Only
Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings
Scope Note: Notes = A language dysfunction characterized by the inability to name people and objects that are correctly perceived. The individual is able to describe the object in question, but cannot provide the name. ,Created For = LHSA-Dott

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

PR1.15, 1925-1964

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/20/PR1.15
Scope and Contents

Typed case summaries, notes, reports, charts, drawings, photographs and correspondence relating to female patient from outside Great Britain, aged 32 at first examination in 1925. Conditions mentioned include: meningioma; meningoblastoma; headache; alexia; agraphia; and anomia. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1925-1964
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive: Case Notes / Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh Folder-based Case Notes / RIE Professor Norman Dott Case Notes

PR2.1974, 1943-1944

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.1974
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, charts and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothiansaged 33 at first examination in 1943. Conditions mentioned include: amnesic; dysphasic; paralysed on right side; epilepsy; and aphasia. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1943-1944
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive: Case Notes / Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh Folder-based Case Notes / RIE, Professor Norman Dott, Neurology, Ward 20 (part 1)

PR2.18903, 1958

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.18903
Scope and Contents

Correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 62 at first examination in 1958. Conditions mentioned include: Alzheimer's disease; amnesic dysphasia; visual hallucinations; and headaches. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1958
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive: Case Notes / Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh Folder-based Case Notes / RIE, Professor Norman Dott, Neurology, Ward 20 (part 4)