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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:

PR2.11336, 1952

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.11336
Scope and Contents

Report, notes and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 10 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: mental defective; epilepsy; birth injury; encephalitis; and thrombo-phlebitis. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1952

PR2.11410, 1952

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.11410
Scope and Contents

Notes and correspondence relating to female patient fromScotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 16 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: mongolism; mental defect; and ankylosis of elbow. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1952

PR2.11445, 1952

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.11446
Scope and Contents

Correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 10 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: mental defective; epilepsy; sixth nerve paresis; and diffuse cerebral disease. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1952

PR2.11484, 1952

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.11484
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, reports, notes and correspondence relating to female patient fromScotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 10 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: idiopathic epilepsy; mental retardation; and hyperactivity. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1952

PR2.11556, 1952

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.11556
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to female patient fromGreat Britain (excluding Scotland) aged3at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: Jacksonian epilepsy; and backwardness. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1952

PR2.11599, 1952-1955

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.11599
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, handwritten notes, and reports relating to male patient of no fixed address aged 47 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: head injury; intellectual and psychological deterioration; and disseminated sclerosis. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1952-1955

PR2.11678, 1952

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.11678
Scope and Contents

Correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 10 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: mental backwardness; and microencephaly. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1952

PR2.11707, 1952

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.11707
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 18 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: psychoneurosis; spina bifida occulta; and metally retarded. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1952

PR2.11727, 1952

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.11727
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, charts, reports, and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 28 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: brain tumour; intellectual deterioration; hemiplegia; aphasia; headache; papilloedema; increased intracranial pressure; hydrocephalus; and ischaema of brainstem. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Dates: 1952

PR2.11730, 1952

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.11730
Scope and Contents

Report and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 17 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: intellectual backwardness; receptive dysphasia; and fits. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1952