Commentary on cognitive and psychiatric symptoms associated with normal pressure hydrocephalus and frontotemporal dementia.
Normal pressure hydrocephalus, a reversible cause of dementia, and frontotemporal dementia, an irreversible process, may present with or complicate psychiatric illness. Recognition of these neurological disorders in patients presenting with behavioral symptoms affects key treatment decisions and prognosis.
KAHN: Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York.
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