Tag: Wrongly diagnosed Alzheimer’s

Thousands of patients with curable brain condition… – Article in The Daily Mail Online

Thousands of patients with curable brain condition ‘may be languishing in care homes after being wrongly diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease’   About 20,000 Britons are thought to have normal pressure hydrocephalus     The condition is caused by fluid becoming trapped on the brain     Richard Edwards, neurosurgeon, said doctors often mistake the illness for dementia, […]