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Intellectual Disability

 Subject
Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings
Scope Note: Subnormal intellectual functioning which originates during the developmental period. This has multiple potential etiologies, including genetic defects and perinatal insults. Intelligence quotient (IQ) scores are commonly used to determine whether an individual has an intellectual disability. IQ scores between 70 and 79 are in the borderline range. Scores below 67 are in the disabled range. (from Joynt, Clinical Neurology, 1992, Ch55, p28) Created For = LHSA-Dott

Found in 3009 Collections and/or Records:

PR4.696, 1933

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/22/PR4.696
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, typed case summary and notes relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 8 at first examination in 1933. Conditions mentioned include: birth injury; epilepsy; speech difficulty; and mental retardation. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1933

PR4.701, 1933-1936

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/22/PR4.701
Scope and Contents

Correspondence and notes relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 2 at first examination in 1933. Conditions mentioned include: birth injury; cerebral injury; mental retardation; and spastic paralysis. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1933-1936

PR4.713, 1934-1938

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/22/PR4.713
Scope and Contents

Correspondence and notes relating to female patient from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 7 at first examination in 1934. Conditions mentioned include: Little's disease; fits; homonymous hemianopia; mental retardation; and longitudinal sinus thrombosis. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1934-1938

PR4.736, 1934

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/22/PR4.736
Scope and Contents

Correspondence and typed case summary relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 30 at first examination in 1934. Conditions mentioned include: encephalitis; slurring of speech; intellectual enfeeblement; and nystagmus. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1934

PR4.763, 1934

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/22/PR4.763
Scope and Contents

Correspondence relating to female patient from outside Great Britain aged 12 at first examination in 1934. Conditions mentioned include: mental deficiency; sleeping sickness; and ?meningitis. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1934

PR4.775, 1934-1935

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/22/PR4.775
Scope and Contents

Correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 9 at first examination in 1934. Conditions mentioned include: encephalitis; developmental delay; mental deficiency; and athetosis. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1934-1935

PR4.784, 1935

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/22/PR4.784
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, notes and typed case summary relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 13 at first examination in 1935. Conditions mentioned include: encephalitis; epilepsy; incontinence of urine; and mental deficiency. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1935

PR4.785, 1935

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/22/PR4.785
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, notes and typed case summary relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 10 at first examination in 1935. Conditions mentioned include: birth injury; blindness in left eye; mental deficiency; and athetosis. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1935

PR4.808, 1935-1939

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/22/PR4.808
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 10 at first examination in 1935. Conditions mentioned include: encephalitis; fits; aphasia; and mental deficiency. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1935-1939

PR4.840, 1935-1936

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/22/PR4.840
Scope and Contents

Notes, typed case summary and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 10 at first examination in 1935. Conditions mentioned include: intracranial haemorrhage; hydrocephalus; mental deficiency; and epilepsy. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1935-1936