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Shoplifting associated with normal-pressure hydrocephalus: report of a case
1Department of Psychiatry, St Boniface General Hospital, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology
|October 1, 1990
Abstract:
A 52-year-old woman who had been apprehended for shoplifting was found to have normal-pressure hydrocephalus due to aqueduct stenosis. We ascribe the shoplifting to impairment of social judgment, which was one of the observed features of a dementia. Cerebrospinal fluid diversion by means of a ventriculo-peritoneal shunt resulted in resolution of her symptoms.