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Narcolepsy

 Subject
Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings
Scope Note: Notes = A condition characterized by recurrent episodes of daytime somnolence and lapses in consciousness (microsomnias) that may be associated with automatic behaviors and AMNESIA. CATAPLEXY; SLEEP PARALYSIS, and hypnagogic HALLUCINATIONS frequently accompany narcolepsy. ,Created For = LHSA-Dott

Found in 40 Collections and/or Records:

PR3.69, 1939-1941

 Item
Identifier: LHB40 CC/2/PR3.69
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to male captain from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians)aged 33 at first examination in 1939 Conditions mentioned include: head injury; retrograde amnesia; personality changes; headache; and narcoleptic attacks. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1939-1941

PR1.933, 1933-1941

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/20/PR1.933
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, charts, reports and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 31 at first examination in 1933. Conditions mentioned include: seizures; encephalitis; narcolepsy; and cataplexy. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1933-1941

PR2.419, 1941-1950

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.419
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 35 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: facial spasms; narcolepsy; encephalitis; and akinesis. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1941-1950

PR3.592, 1942

 Item
Identifier: LHB40 CC/2/PR3.592
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to maleflying officer fromGreat Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 34 at first examination in1942 Conditions mentioned include: narcoleptic attacks; and sleep paralysis. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1942

PR4.796, 1933-1936

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/22/PR4.796
Scope and Contents

Correspondence relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians first examined in 1933. Conditions mentioned include: narcolepsy; headaches; diplopia; and amblyopia. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1933-1936

PR4.797, 1933

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/22/PR4.797
Scope and Contents

Correspondence relating to female patient first examined in 1933. Conditions mentioned include: narcolepsy. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1933

PR1.1251, 1936-1937

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/20/PR1.1251
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, notes, reports, photographs and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 15 at first examination in 1936. Conditions mentioned include: epilepsy; narcolepsy; and haemangiomatosis. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1936-1937

PR1.1559, 1938-1940

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/20/PR1.1559
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, charts, photographs and correspondence relating to male patient from outside Great Britain aged 15 at first examination in 1938. Conditions mentioned include: skull fracture; head injury; headache; vomiting; intracranial pressure; and narcolepsy. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1938-1940

PR2.1807, 1943

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.1807
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to male from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 32 at first examination in 1943. Conditions mentioned include: headache; head injury; and narcolepsy. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1943

PR2.2647, 1944

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.2647
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 32 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: narcolepsy; and cataplexy. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1944