Dr. works to reverse medical condition

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) -- A little known neurological condition can now be potentially reversed with the right treatment.

N.P.H is Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus. It's often misdiagnosed for Parkinson's or Alzheimer's. A Connecticut neurologist has now made it his mission to educate other doctors and patients so the proper treatment is prescribed.

Carole Murgo needed a walker to get around.

"I couldn't get out of bed, I couldn't walk," said Carole.

She also had an over-active bladder.

"That was the worst. Being an independent woman all my life and then have to go into like papers or diapers or whatever they were," Carole said.

"In February she took a fall, at first they said there was blood in the brain," said Carole's husband Dominic Murgo.

It took a visit to neurologist Dr. Adam Mednick for the correct diagnosis. Carole had Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus or N.P.H. "It's a gradual buildup of the fluid," said Dr. Mednick.

The buildup of cerebral spinal fluid provides nutrition to the brain.

"It's not because it's too much fluid produced, it's that there is not enough fluid being absorbed," Dr. Mednick said.

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Dr. works to reverse medical condition