Corpus callosum functioning in patients with normal pressure hydrocephalus before and after surgery
Maria Mataró1, Maria Antonia Poca, Mar Matarín
1Departament de Psiquiatria i Psicobiologia, Universitat de Barcelona, IDIBAPS, Casanova 143, 08036, Barcelona, Spain. cjunque@ub.edu
Objectives:
Our aim was to evaluate corpus callosum functioning in a group of patients with normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) before and after shunting.
Methods:
Left ear-extinction under a dichotic listening task was evaluated in twenty-three patients with NPH, 30 patients with Alzheimer's disease and 30 aged controls.
Results:
Patients with NPH had higher levels of left ear extinction than the control and Alzheimer's groups. Sixty-one percent of NPH patients exhibited left ear suppression, compared with 13% of Alzheimer's patients and 17% of controls. Following surgery, NPH patients showed a significant change in the degree of asymmetry in the dichotic listening task.
Conclusions:
Hydrocephalus was associated with left-ear extinction,which diminished after surgery. Our results may indicate reversible functional damage in the corpus callosum.
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