Is brain atrophy a disease? Is brain atrophy a common condition?

Cerebellar atrophy is not a disease but a neuroimaging finding. It can be seen not only in some hereditary and degenerative diseases, but also in some acute courses such as the late stage of acute cerebellitis and some drug poisoning, and even in some clinically asymptomatic people, cerebellar atrophy can also be seen in imaging examinations, especially in the elderly. Common features are decreased cerebellar volume and widened sulci on neuroimaging.

It can be divided into localized and generalized cerebellar atrophy. Because the cerebellum is mainly involved in the regulation of somatic balance and muscle tone, patients with cerebellar atrophy often have symptoms such as gait instability, ataxia, and slurred speech. Many reasons can lead to brain atrophy, people will gradually develop brain atrophy as they age, especially in old age, so don't panic, training will delay the progression of the disease.

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Cerebral atrophy refers to the reduction of brain tissue volume, the reduction of brain parenchyma, the loss of brain weight, the decrease in the number of cells, the widening and deepening of the sulci, and the enlargement of the ventricles, cisterns and subarachnoid space caused by various causes. Brain atrophy is a chronic progressive disease, in fact, with the increase of age, the human brain will have different degrees of atrophy, which is a normal physiological phenomenon. If the degree of cerebral atrophy is severe, especially the atrophy of the frontal and temporal lobes, there will be different degrees of dementia, mainly manifested as memory loss, emotional instability, decreased thinking ability, inability to concentrate, and in severe cases, loss of self-care ability.

There are also some brain atrophy caused by other reasons, which are secondary brain atrophy, the main causes include: brain trauma, stroke, encephalitis, meningitis, brain tumors, long-term seizures, excessive tobacco and alcohol, malnutrition, thyroid dysfunction, gas poisoning, alcohol poisoning, etc.

1. Aging: With age, it is a normal physiological phenomenon for brain tissue to shrink to a certain extent.

2. Brain trauma: Traffic accidents, falls and other head injuries can cause damage to brain tissue, resulting in brain atrophy.

3. Neurological diseases

1) Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia patients gradually damage brain cells and lose the ability to communicate with each other, resulting in the loss of memory and thinking ability, which is the main cause of brain atrophy.

2) Huntington's disease is a genetic disorder that gradually damages neurons, usually starting in middle age, and over time, it affects a person's mental and physical abilities, leading to brain atrophy.

3) Vitiligo is a group of rare genetic diseases that damage the myelin sheath, which in turn leads to atrophy of brain tissue.

4) The immune system of people with multiple sclerosis attacks the protective coating around nerve cells, causing nerve cells to be damaged, leading to dementia and brain atrophy.

4. Infectious diseases:

1) AIDS attacks the body's immune system by disrupting the connections between neurons by releasing proteins and other substances. Toxoplasmosis associated with AIDS can also damage neurons in the brain.

2) Encephalitis is most commonly caused by the herpes simplex virus, which can harm neurons and cause symptoms such as confusion, seizures, and paralysis. Autoimmune diseases can also cause encephalitis.

There are several causes of cerebellar atrophy:

First, it is hereditary. Such as spinocerebellar degeneration, ataxia, dentate nucleus, globus pallidus, Lewy body atrophy, etc.

2. Deformability, which is reflected in multisystem atrophy and cerebral atrophy.

3. Ischemia and hypoxia, more common in carbon monoxide poisoning.

Fourth, it is drug poisoning, such as phenytoin poisoning.

5. Inflammatory, causing the sequelae of inflammatory acute cerebellia, it can also cause cerebellar atrophy.

6. Alcoholism, alcoholic cerebellar degeneration is also one of the cerebellar atrophys.

7. Others, including neuroparaneoplastic syndrome, are the main causes of cerebellar atrophy.

Cerebellar atrophy is not a disease but a neuroimaging finding. Cerebellar atrophy can also be seen in some acute diseases, such as in the later stages of acute cerebellitis and in some people who are intoxicated by certain drugs or even in some clinically asymptomatic people. A common feature is a decrease in cerebellar volume and widening of the sulci on neuroimaging, which can be divided into localized and generalized cerebellar atrophy.

Brain cells are permanent cells that can never regenerate once they are broken, so all factors that cause damage to brain cells can cause brain atrophy. There are uncontrollable factors, such as age, with the increase of age, the brain capacity is gradually reduced, so it will cause physiological brain atrophy, or senile brain atrophy. There are also many controllable factors, such as chronic alcoholism that can lead to brain atrophy, local traumatic brain injury, or partial brain atrophy after a craniotomy.

After acute cerebrovascular disease, whether it is cerebral infarction or cerebral hemorrhage, it can also cause local cerebral atrophy. If there are risk factors such as chronic hypertension and diabetes that damage blood vessels, or if there is smoking that causes damage to small blood vessels, it will cause white matter degeneration around the ventricles, resulting in brain atrophy. At the same time, there are some degenerative changes, such as Alzheimer's disease, that is, senile dementia, or other types of dementia, which can lead to the occurrence of brain atrophy, so brain atrophy is a very, very many causes of the outcome.

Cerebral atrophy is a disease that causes cranial nerve dysfunction due to the corresponding reduction of brain tissue cells, and the main clinical symptom of cerebral atrophy is dementia, especially the elderly are prone to Alzheimer's disease.

Cerebral atrophy is a mental degenerative disease caused by a variety of reasons for the reduction of brain tissue volume, mostly caused by heredity, brain trauma, cerebral infarction, encephalitis, cerebral ischemia, hypoxia, cerebral arteriosclerosis, gas poisoning, alcohol poisoning, etc., which causes brain parenchymal destruction and atrophy, deformation, and disappearance of nerve cells, among which the most important factor is caused by long-term chronic ischemia of cerebral blood vessels.

There are many causes of cerebral atrophy: heredity, traumatic brain injury, sequelae of poisoning, cerebral infarction, encephalitis meningitis, cerebral ischemia, hypoxia, cerebrovascular malformation, brain tumor, stroke, long-term attack of epilepsy, excessive tobacco and alcohol, malnutrition, thyroid dysfunction, cerebral arteriosclerosis, gas poisoning, alcohol poisoning, etc., which cause brain parenchymal destruction and atrophy, deformation and disappearance of nerve cells, among which the most important factor is caused by long-term chronic ischemia of cerebral blood vessels.

The disease is multicausal. It is caused by heredity, traumatic brain injury, sequelae of poisoning, cerebral infarction, encephalitis meningitis, cerebral ischemia, hypoxia, cerebrovascular malformation, brain tumor, stroke, long-term seizures, excessive tobacco and alcohol, malnutrition, thyroid dysfunction, cerebral arteriosclerosis, gas poisoning, etc

Alcoholism and other travel causes the destruction of brain parenchyma and the atrophy, deformation and disappearance of nerve cells, the most important of which is caused by long-term chronic ischemia of cerebrovascular blood vessels.

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