Short summary of the Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus
Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus (NPH) is a potentially reversible cause of dementia. Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) abnormally accumulates in the brain’s ventricles in people with normal pressure hydrocephalus. It causes a classic symptom triad.
- Incontinence (“wet”)
- Gait instability (“wobbly”)
- Cognitive changes (“wacky”).
Clinicians discovered those three minor impairments in patients with hydrocephalus and normal CSF pressure in 1965, and they were the ones who initially described it.