Normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) is one of the few reversible causes of dementia in older adults and accounts for approximately 6% of all dementias. The cardinal sign of NPH is a hypokinetic gait ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I am an 84-year-old woman who was recently diagnosed with hydrocephalus after an MRI scan. I understand that there isn’t any treatment besides a shunt. Do you have any recommendations?

Imagine you or a loved one are walking normally, then, slowly, you start to shuffle. You lose bladder control and, possibly most frightening, your memory starts to fade. These are all symptoms that ...

Normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) is an uncommon problem most commonly found in people over 60. There are three types of symptoms that are found in NPH: changes in a person’s walking; memory loss as ...

SEOUL, South Korea--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Professor Kim Jae-ho of the Department of Neurology at Hallym University Dongtan Sacred Heart Hospital delivered a presentation titled “Transcranial Focused ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Medical officials say a disease that is often mistaken for Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia is a condition that can be reversed by doctors. Sixty-eight-year-old Joe Mehl ...

OCCULT hydrocephalus is usually accompanied by symptoms of headache, dementia or gait disturbance that may occur individually or in any possible combination. 1 The patient reported below showed ...

A 78-year-old male presented with a 4-year history of mild cognitive decline and a 10-year history of hypertension and type 2 diabetes. According to his family, he seemed forgetful and slower in ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am an 84-year-old woman who was recently diagnosed with hydrocephalus after an MRI scan. I understand that there isn’t any treatment besides a shunt. Do you have any recommendations?

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am an 84-year-old woman who was recently diagnosed with hydrocephalus after an MRI scan. I understand that there isn't any treatment besides a shunt. Do you have any recommendations?

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