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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:

PR2.8070, 1949

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.8070
Scope and Contents

Notes, reports and correspondence relating to female patient from aged 29 at first examination in 1949. Conditions mentioned include: mental deficiency; and head injury. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1949

PR2.8109, 1949-1950

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.8109
Scope and Contents

Notes, report and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 1 at first examination in 1949. Conditions mentioned include: poor vision; mental underdevelopment; amentia; chorioretinitis; and toxoplasmosis. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1949-1950

PR2.8190, 1949

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.8190
Scope and Contents

Typed correspondence and notes relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 21 at first examination in 1949. Conditions mentioned include: head injuries; facial injuries; and retarded mental development. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1949

PR2.8328, 1949-1965

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.8328
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, notes, charts, reports, autopsy report and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 0 at first examination in 1949. Conditions mentioned include: hydrocephalus; mental retardation; head injury; subdural haematoma; and fits. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital on second admission.

Dates: 1949-1965

PR2.8365, 1949-1950

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.8365
Scope and Contents

Chart and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 6 at first examination in 1950. Conditions mentioned include: convulsions; intellectual disability; and spastic hemiplegia. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1949-1950

PR2.8581, 1950

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.8581
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary and report relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 40 at first examination in 1950. Conditions mentioned include: epilepsy; fits; unconsciousness; headache; mental disability; paralysis; hypertonus; and cerebral vascular accident. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1950

PR2.8616, 1950

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.8616
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes and report relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 15 at first examination in 1950. Conditions mentioned include: epilepsy; fits; birth injury; and backwardness. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1950

PR2.8672, 1950-1957

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.8672
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes and report relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 28 at first examination in 1950. Conditions mentioned include: epilepsy; fits; mental backwardness; homonymous hemianopia; right-sided convulsion; and nystagmus. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1950-1957

PR2.8673, 1950

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.8673
Scope and Contents

Typed correspondence, notes and chart relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 28 at first examination in 1950. Conditions mentioned include: mentally defective. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1950

PR2.8788, 1950

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.8788
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 23 at first examination in 1950. Conditions mentioned include: epilepsy; and mental defect. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1950