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Neurophysiological study of normal pressure hydrocephalus
Author(s) -
Caltagirone C.,
Gainotti G.,
Masullo C.,
Villa G.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
acta psychiatrica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.849
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1600-0447
pISSN - 0001-690X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1982.tb00827.x
Subject(s) - normal pressure hydrocephalus , dementia , frontal lobe , hydrocephalus , neuropsychology , medicine , psychology , audiology , cardiology , surgery , psychiatry , cognition , disease
A neuropsychological Mental Deterioration Battery (MDB) was used to identify deterioration profiles of 43 patients afflicted with normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) ( n = 18) or other forms of dementia ( n = 25). The NPH patients submitted to a shunt‐intervention ( n = 10) were also evaluated after surgery. A comparison of profiles, obtained from the experimental and control groups, shows that NPH patients seem to be more impaired in tests designed to detect frontal lobe involvement. Some implications of the relatively greater impairment of frontal functions in NPH dementia are discussed.