Talk:Hydrocephalus

message: Should there be a listing of places for donations in this article in an encyclopedia? --Alex.tan 04:00, 28 Oct 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: No, there shouldn't. Deleted. Vicki Rosenzweig 04:03, 28 Oct 2003 (UTC)
thread_title:  Donations 

message: While the article mentioned treatment of hydrocephalus per se, it has been thought in the past that treatment=cure. It doesn't, of course. It was thought that after my series of shunt "revisions" in the late 1960's that I was a "normal" person and had no excuse for having problems.  It was believed that any problems would go away following a revision.  Please understand that this is not the case with a great number of people with hydrocephalus. For myself, I will always have trouble with memory and concentration. A neurosurgeon admitted that nothing can be done for my limited peripheral vision - not even eyeglasses or surgery. In a "time is money" world it is difficult for me to hold a real paying job.  My memory capacity is too poor to survive in college or university. I had to struggle considerably to escape high school (it was "expected" of me).  Some with hydrocephalus have a harder time than I do. Some will have an easier time that I can only dream of. We're not all alike. But please, don't confuse being "treated" as being "cured".  Some people do that and it's very discouraging.
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Agreed! Sdsures (talk) 15:24, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Treatment vs. "Cure" 

message: I found this really pretty interesting picture of a full skeleton of a hydrocephalic man from the early 20th century (at :Image:Hydrocephalic_skeleton.jpg), but I hesitate to add it to the article because the skeleton itself looks somewhat odd (the torso, in particular, seems highly distorted). I'm worried that it wouldn't be representative, but I admittedly know next to nothing about the illness. Does anyone else think it has value in the article? --Fastfission 16:34, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Picture

message: As someone with hydrocephalus, I was always told that the term was from the Greek for water on the brain, as opposed to the article's phrasing, "water head".  Am I just the recepient of a sloppy translation, or is the article's version poorly done? -Fsotrain09 01:21, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, you were told wrong. Where did the person who misinformed you get the preposition on and the word the? hydro = water, cephalon = brain/head. --Storkk 12:21, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  That was not very kindly put! In fact, the Oxford English Dictionary gives "water on the brain" as the correct phrase. So on who told you wrong!? 79.213.78.95 (talk) 14:38, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: From the Greek

message: Yes, it does mean "Water Head", or rather "Water Brain", bare in mind the greek knowledge of the skull head and the brain were all mixed up into one, but effectivly yeah, Hydro-water Cephalus-Head/brain
: I understand the whole lack of a Greek distinction there, but I'm just wondering about how the translation is phrased.  Is there a reference for the "water head" interpretation? -Fsotrain09 22:57, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Roughly translated

message: http://flatrock.org.nz/topics/science/is_the_brain_really_necessary.htm
--Ifrit 16:18, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Check this out 

message: I added a tag, reflecting that I think this article is very informally written. I changed one "hasn't" to "has not", but there are less tangible points that also hurt its formality. --Storkk 12:21, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: inappropriate tone tag

message: * The U.S. government spends less than $1 per person with hydrocephalus per year for research, while more than $300 is spent per person with juvenile diabetes per year.
This comparison needs to be rewritten so it doesn't sound like a sales pitch. In addition, it's uncited. If ppl think that there is something unfair going on and research is underfunded, quote someone who says this. It would go better than the above statement and would avoid pov-ish language. --DanielCD 22:59, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Removed sentence

message: I noticed a few things reading through this article tonight.  I'd have started work on it myself, but I'm too tired.  I was diagnosed with hydrocephalus when I was ten months old, so hah, 25 years ago.
# one  The article states that shunts have remained unchanged since their creation in 1960.  This is obviously false, even if minor modifications are ignored.  There are now shunts with programmable valves so that the CSF pressure can be controlled nonsurgically.  
# two  This may be a question of semantics, but I consider the ETV surgery a 'cure' for hydrocephalus.  One is no longer shunt dependent anyway.  Crazyniece 07:12, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Suggested Edits

message: The history section needs considerable expansion. Unfortunately, I've filed away somewhere all the research I did in college, but while I try to find it, somebody else jump right in ... there is quite a history of attempted cures and treatments before the invention of the shunt, and it goes to show how desperate people were to find a solution. Also, I remember finding confirmation that the first shunt(s) for hydrocephalus were designed (developed? sketched?) by a hydraulics engineer whose son had the condition, which would be another worthwhile addition. Lawikitejana 03:05, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: History

message: I'm not sure that the dual use of classification systems is helpful, particularly the description of internal and external hydrocephalus. As far as I'm aware these terms are not in common clinical usage (unless they are peculiar to the US, perhaps?) and technically speaking are not accurate. Communicating and non-communicating/obstructive hydrocephalus are commoner clinical terms and are anatomically more correct. I'd suggest eliminating the use of the terms internal and external, except perhaps in an "also known as" aside?
Mcanty 17:19, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Internal/external vs communicating/non-communicating 

message: why is it called HIDROCEFALIA in spanish and portugese and Hydrocephalus in english when its greek?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.97.6.98 (talk) 13:20, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  HIDROCEFALIA? 

message: There's a free image here: .  I just don't have time to upload it right now.  If you'd like to upload it but don't know how, I'm glad to help, just drop me a note on my talk page. delldot talk 02:12, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I've uploaded the first two, I don't know if the post-op images are as useful. delldot talk 02:58, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Here's another set: http://www.casesjournal.com/content/1/1/180 delldot ∇. 07:51, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Free image available 

message: Hi, i removed this text "In the United States, the healthcare cost for hydrocephalus has exceeded $1 billion per year, but is still much less funded than research on other diseases including juvenile diabetes.Need For Increased Federal Funding of Type 1 Diabetes Research JDRF" since the reference was a dead link and i cannot find any other ref to verify this claim.--Amaher (talk) 00:20, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: costs and funding

message: Hi, I've made a section right at the beginning for signs and symptoms of hydrocephalus, with a citation. Sdsures (talk) 02:07, 19 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Signs and Symptoms

message: I've added a bit about this, as I have experienced it. I know it's rare, but it needs to be put out there. I know I am not the only one with this! Could someone do some research about it and add citation? Sdsures (talk) 02:21, 19 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Idiopathic Intracranial Hypotension

message: I found this site via the article about John Lorber: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lorber. I was a bit surprised to find that he was not mentioned in this article. Around 1980 (?) he wrote an article about a mathematician who suffered from hydrocephalus. Despite having only 10% of the normal brain mass, he had an IQ of 120+. The article was also referenced in the Science magazine.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 150.101.219.155 (talk) 23:37, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Link to John Lorber

message: I'm not sure whether this is a sufficiently plausible source of confusion to justify inclusion in the hatnote. Was the intent to say that a chronic and/or repeated form of water intoxication is a common cause of hydrocephalus? --SoledadKabocha (talk) 03:15, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: The hatnote in question appears no longer to be present. --SoledadKabocha (talk) 23:34, 21 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Water intoxication 

message: This is well supported User:Wimpus
"The word "hydrocephalus" is ."
Not sure what you think the term should be and what ref you feel we should use to support it? Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 18:16, 2 February 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Dear Doc James, the source states: "The term hydrocephalus is derived from the Greek words "hydro" meaning water and "cephalus" meaning head." According to this source, "hydro" and "cephalus" are actual Greek words, but a Greek dictionary shows us otherwise as ὕδωρ (hydōr) and κεφαλή (kephalē) are the actual Greek words for "water" and "head". "Hydro" and "cephalus" are non-existent in Greek. "Cephalus" is a Latinization of Κέφαλος (Kephalos), a name common for multiple mythological and historical figures from antiquity. Greek kέφαλος (kephalos)  (with a lowercase) is actually a species of mullet. It seems that the author of the factsheet did not checked any dictionary and proposed an ill-informed etymology. Dorland's Medical dictionary for example mentions "hydro- + Gr. kephalē head" and explains that the combining form "hydr(o)-" is derived from "Gr. hydōr water". In Ancient Greek however, ὑδροκέφαλον (hydrokephalon) and ὑδροκέφαλον πάθος (hydrokephalon pathos) are attested. It is not clear to me, whether hydrocephalus is de novo compounded from ὕδωρ (hydōr) and κεφαλή (kephalē) or some kind of corruption of ὑδροκέφαλον (πάθος) (hydrokephalon (pathos)). With kind regards, Wimpus (talk) 18:47, 2 February 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: User:Wimpus than how about "The word "hydrocephalus" is from "hydro-" meaning water and "cephalus" meaning head." Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 03:02, 3 February 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, the source mentions hydro and not hydro-. But, wouldn't it be better to conclude that this fact sheet is a subpar source for etymological information and it is better to use a proper source instead? I will change tomorrow the text to: "Hydrocephalus is derived from Greek ὕδωρ (hydōr) "water" and κεφαλή (kephalē) "head"." with reference to Dorland's Medical dictionary. This is still an intermediate solution, as Dorland's Medical dictionary does not address the actually Greek forms like ὑδροκέφαλον (hydrokephalon) and ὑδροκέφαλον πάθος (hydrokephalon pathos), but is clearly a better attempt than pointing to non-existing forms such as hydro and cephalus. Wimpus (talk) 17:53, 5 February 2019 (UTC)
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