Incomplete reversibility of selective hippocampal response after early and delayed shunting in adult kaolin-hydrocephalus -- implications for early shunt treatment.

The article considers whether shunting can reverse hydrocephalus' ability to delay selective neuronal response. According to the authors, incomplete reversibility and only partial recovery of selective neuronal response after delayed shunting was evidenced by the findings in the hippocampus. The authors state that the observed differences between the early and late shunt group might have important clinical implications for early shunting.