AUG 1, 2026 · JOURNAL ARTICLE
Beyond depression and dementia: Idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus as a neuropsychiatric mimic in the emergency department
Trauma and Emergency Medicine
Expert-derived educational framework for emergency physicians to recognize iNPH as a neuropsychiatric mimic in older adults; evidence base includes a placebo-controlled trial showing gait improvement and meta-analysis data, but the screening framework itself awaits prospective validation.
Reported
Apathy prevalence in iNPHroughly 69%
Depression prevalence in iNPHabout 30%
Depression outcome from 2025 trialmodest reduction in depression scores, conf…