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Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society 2010;47(3): 191-198.
doi: https://doi.org/10.3340/jkns.2010.47.3.191
Neuropsychological Assessment of Adult Patients with Shunted Hydrocephalus.
Emel Erdogan Bakar, Bulent Bakar
1Department of Psychology, Ufuk University, Ankara, Turkey.
2Department of Neurosurgery, Klrlkkale University Faculty of Medicine, Klrlkkale, Turkey. bulentbanrs@yahoo.com
ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE
This study is planned to determine the neurocognitive difficulties of hydrocephalic adults.
METHODS
The research group contained healthy adults (control group, n : 15), and hydrocephalic adults (n : 15). Hydrocephalic group consisted of patients with idiopathic aquaduct stenosis and post-meningitis hydrocephalus. All patients were followed with shunted hydrocephalus and not gone to shunt revision during last two years. They were chosen from either asymptomatic or had only minor symptoms without motor and sensorineural deficit. A neuropsychological test battery (Raven Standart Progressive Matrices, Bender-Gestalt Test, Cancellation Test, Clock Drawing Test, Facial Recognition Test, Line Orientation Test, Serial Digit Learning Test, Stroop Color Word Interference Test-TBAG Form, Verbal Fluency Test, Verbal Fluency Test, Visual-Aural Digit Span Test-B) was applied to all groups.
RESULTS
Neuropsychological assessment of hydrocephalic patients demonstrated that they had poor performance on visual, semantic and working memory, visuoconstructive and frontal functions, reading, attention, motor coordination and executive function of parietal lobe which related with complex and perseverative behaviour. Eventually, these patients had significant impairment on the neurocognitive functions of their frontal, parietal and temporal lobes. On the other hand, the statistical analyses performed on demographic data showed that the aetiology of the hydrocephalus, age, sex and localization of the shunt (frontal or posterior parietal) did not affect the test results.
CONCLUSION
This prospective study showed that adult patients with hydrocephalus have serious neuropsychological problems which might be directly caused by the hydrocephalus; and these problems may cause serious adaptive difficulties in their social, cultural, behavioral and academic life.
Key Words: Adult; Hydrocephalus; Neuropsychological assessment
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