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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:

PR2.5855, 1947-1948

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.5855
Scope and Contents

Notes and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 38 at first examination in 1947. Conditions mentioned include: defective mental development; birth injury; and epilepsy. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1947-1948

PR2.5921, 1947-1957

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.5921
Scope and Contents

Correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 2 at first examination in 1947. Conditions mentioned include: slow brain development; and cerebral haemorrhage. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1947-1957

PR2.5945, 1947

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.5945
Scope and Contents

Notes and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 33 at first examination in 1947. Conditions mentioned include: mental defect; fits; extrapyramidal disorder; and encephalitis. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1947

PR2.5976, 1947

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.5976
Scope and Contents

Correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 5 at first examination in 1947. Conditions mentioned include: meningoencephalitis; vomiting; and mental retardation. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1947

PR2.5979, 1947

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.5979
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, reports and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 11 at first examination in 1947. Conditions mentioned include: birth injury; fits; and mental backwardness. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1947

PR2.6138, 1947-1953

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.6138
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, notes and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 2 at first examination in 1948. Conditions mentioned include: fits; birth injury; and mental backwardness. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1947-1953

PR2.6153, 1947-1948

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.6153
Scope and Contents

Notes and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 3 at first examination in 1947. Conditions mentioned include: hypertonus; hyperkinesis; epilepsy; retardation; and degenerative process. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1947-1948

PR2.6185, 1947-1964

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.6185
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, charts, reports, notes, tracer card and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 23 at first examination in 1948. Conditions mentioned include: headache; spasticity; hypersomnia; interrupted cerebral development; and chronic schizophrenia. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1947-1964

PR2.6929, 1948

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.6929
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 7 at first examination in 1948. Conditions mentioned include: mental deficiency; fits; and slow development. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1948

PR2.6945, 1948

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.6945
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, charts and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 17 at first examination in 1948. Conditions mentioned include: congenital deformity; Arnold Chiari malformation; spinal cord compression; mental disability; and Klippel Feil deformity. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hosiptal.

Dates: 1948