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CSF tapping also improves mental imagery of gait in normal pressure hydrocephalus

Authors: Bruno Marques, Magali Laidet, Stéphane Armand, Frédéric Assal, Gilles Allali

Published in: Journal of Neural Transmission | Issue 11/2017

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This study aims to compare the changes of Timed Up and Go (TUG) and its imagined version (iTUG) after CSF tapping between patients with idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (iNPH) and its mimics. TUG and iTUG were performed before and 24 h after CSF tapping in 117 patients (75.8 ± 6.9 years; 35% female) with suspicion of iNPH (68 iNPH and 49 mimics). Mental imagery of locomotion was modified after CSF tapping in iNPH patients, but not in the mimics.

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Title: CSF tapping also improves mental imagery of gait in normal pressure hydrocephalus
Authors: Bruno Marques
Magali Laidet
Stéphane Armand
Frédéric Assal
Gilles Allali
Publication date: 01-11-2017
Publisher: Springer Vienna
Published in: Journal of Neural Transmission / Issue 11/2017
Print ISSN: 0300-9564
Electronic ISSN: 1435-1463
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00702-017-1766-z

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CSF tapping also improves mental imagery of gait in normal pressure hydrocephalus

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