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Pick Disease of the Brain

 Subject
Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings
Scope Note: Notes = A rare form of DEMENTIA that is sometimes familial. Clinical features include APHASIA; APRAXIA; CONFUSION; ANOMIA; memory loss; and personality deterioration.,Created For = LHSA-Dott

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Handwritten notes, draft and final version of a paper on Pick's Disease, 1950s

 Bundle
Identifier: LHB7/58/3/1
Scope and Contents

Includes case histories of named patients. One case history is by M. Patton who was a sister at Royal Edinburgh Hospital. Other notes may be by Dr Elizabeth Robertson as they were amongst other papers of hers and she had an interest in the disease.

Dates: 1950s

Papers of Dr Elizabeth Robertson, Consultant Physician, 1950s - 1968

 File
Identifier: LHB7/58/3
Scope and Contents

It is not known whether the first two items were created by Dr Robertson but there is enough internal evidence to suggest they were.

Dates: 1950s - 1968

PR2.4759, 1946

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.4759
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, report and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 59 at first examination in 1946. Conditions mentioned include: organic degenerative pre-senile dementia; personality change; and Pick's pre-senile cerebral atrophy. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1946

PR2.9795, 1951

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.9795
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 67 at first examination in 1951. Conditions mentioned include: pre-senile dementia; brain atrophy; Pick's disease; Alzheimer's disease; dysrhythmia; and epileptic manifestations. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1951

PR2.11443, 1952

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.11443
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, autopsy report, charts, reports and correspondence relating to female patient fromEdinburgh and the Lothians aged 54 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: Alzheimer's; Pick's disease; presenile cortical atrophy; bronchopneumonia; and diffuse cortical arteriosclerosis. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Dates: 1952

PR2.17242, 1956-1958

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.17242
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, reports and charts relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 62 at first examination in 1956. Conditions mentioned include: cerebral atrophy; Pick's Disease; and organic dementia. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1956-1958