title: Recovery from confabulation after normotensive hydrocephalus shunting.
abstract: Confabulation, the production of statements and actions that are unintentionally incongruous to the subject's history, background, present and future situation, is observed in several conditions affecting the nervous system, but it has never been described in normotensive hydrocephalus. In this article we report on a patient with normotensive hydrocephalus who suffered from an amnesic-confabulatory syndrome. After hydrocephalus shunting, both amnesia and confabulation cleared up abruptly. We discuss this finding in terms of a possible disconnection of the hippocampus, due to transitory white matter damage, which may have recovered after hydrocephalus shunting.
authors.affiliation: INSERM, Paris, France; Institut de la Mémoire et de la Maladie d'Alzheimer (IM2A), Département de Neurologie, Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, Sorbonne Universités, Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris6, Paris, France; Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università degli Studi di Trieste, Italy; Centro Medico di Foniatria, Unità Operativa Complessa di Riabilitazione Neurocognitiva, Padova, Italy. Electronic address: gianfranco.dallabarba@upmc.fr.
authors.forename: Gianfranco
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Dalla Barba
authors.affiliation: Centro Medico di Foniatria, Unità Operativa Complessa di Riabilitazione Neurocognitiva, Padova, Italy.
authors.forename: Claudia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Barbera
authors.affiliation: Centro Medico di Foniatria, Unità Operativa Complessa di Riabilitazione Neurocognitiva, Padova, Italy.
authors.forename: Marta
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Brazzarola
authors.affiliation: Centro Medico di Foniatria, Unità Operativa Complessa di Riabilitazione Neurocognitiva, Padova, Italy.
authors.forename: Sara
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Marangoni
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000647:Amnesia / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005260:Female; D006624:Hippocampus / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D006849:Hydrocephalus / Q000503:physiopathology*; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology*; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests
keywords: Amnesia; Confabulation; Hydrocephalus