Is brain atrophy serious, and what happens if brain atrophy is severe?

Seriously, of course. The clinical manifestations of cerebral atrophy can be divided into two categories: cerebral function decline and cognitive decline, which are mainly related to the location and degree of cerebral atrophy. Diffuse cerebral cortex atrophy is mainly characterized by dementia, mental retardation, memory impairment, personality changes, and behavioral disorders.

Some are accompanied by hemiplegia and seizures. Focal brain atrophy is dominated by personality and behavioral changes; Cerebellar atrophy is dominated by speech impairment, limb ataxia, and intention tremor.

1.Systemic symptoms.

In the early stage of the lesion, patients often experience dizziness and headache, insomnia and dreams, soreness in the waist and knees, numbness in the hands and feet, tinnitus and deafness, and gradually become sluggish, slow in movement, muttering, and answering questions that are not answered. In the physical aspect, it is often manifested as senile state of the dragon, white teeth, dryness, pigmentation, or hemiplegia, epilepsy, ataxia, tremor, etc., and neurological symptoms may or may not be present.

2.Memory impairment.

Memory loss of recent events occurs earlier, such as frequent loss of objects and forgetting promised things. As the disease progresses, it gradually leads to complete loss of memory.

3.Changes in personality behavior.

Personality changes are often an early symptom of the disease, with people becoming depressed and disliking people; or manifested as a lack of ideals, desires, and feelings for children and relatives; or have rigid and bizarre living habits, impatient personality, increased speech or verbosity, suspicious and selfish; or have a special concern for their own health and safety, often entangled by some minor discomfort; or amnesia or mania, with delusions, visual hallucinations, auditory hallucinations, aphasia, and agnosia. All high-level emotional activities, shame, responsibility, honor, and morality are reduced to varying degrees, and sleep rhythm changes may also occur.

4.Mental retardation, dementia.

It is manifested as an overall decline in intellectual activities such as comprehension, judgment, and calculation ability, unable to adapt to social life, and difficult to be competent for work and household chores; Gradually, I can't correct my name, age, I don't know how to eat and I don't know how to get hungry, I don't know how to return after going out, and I collect waste paper and miscellaneous items as treasures. In the later stage of the disease, he was bedridden all day long, unable to take care of himself, did not care for himself, incontinent and urinary, slurred speech, slurred speech, and finally complete dementia.

How long is this the case.

If the brain atrophy is severe, it can lead to Alzheimer's disease, and it may also lead to movement disorders and sensory impairments.

When cerebral atrophy is severe, there will be confusion of forgetting relatives, the most common is that the family will think that it is his other relatives, and he will often recall the past events and hallucinate.

If there is a severe case of cerebral atrophy, of course, it can lead to motor function of the limbs, speech dysfunction, dementia, and severe can also cause some consciousness disorders, swallowing dysfunction, etc. It can lead to the inability of patients to take care of themselves, long-term bed rest, and some complications are easy to occur, which seriously threatens the lives of patients.

In severe cases of cerebral atrophy, memory loss occurs, forgetting events and familiar people, visuospatial disturbances occur, and patients cannot find their way home after going out, and some patients may not even be able to find their own room at home, and have obvious behavioral and mental abnormalities.

The brain atrophy is severe, and I can only go to the hospital, there is no better way.

Cerebellar atrophy has both physiological and pathological causes. The physiological reason is mainly due to the increase of age in the body, the apoptosis of brain cells generally, which leads to a decrease in the number of brain cells, a decrease in the volume of the brain, a decrease in brain weight, and the symptoms of global brain atrophy, and the cerebellum can not avoid atrophy, which is a normal physiological phenomenon and is not necessary. There are also patients with pathological phenomena, such as hereditary ataxia, when the patient's cerebellar atrophy will be obvious, the age of onset can be 20-30 years old or 50 years old, the patient shows poor limb balance, unstable gait, and some patients can not walk and need to do a wheelchair.

In addition, carbon monoxide poisoning can also cause cerebellar atrophy; Traumatic cerebellar atrophy is also common; Drug poisoning can also cause cerebellar atrophy.

Cerebellar atrophy has both physiological and pathological causes. The physiological reason is mainly due to the increase of age in the body, the apoptosis of brain cells generally, which leads to a decrease in the number of brain cells, a decrease in the volume of the brain, a decrease in brain weight, and the symptoms of global brain atrophy, and the cerebellum can not avoid atrophy, which is a normal physiological phenomenon and is not necessary. There are also patients with pathological phenomena, such as hereditary ataxia, when the patient's cerebellar atrophy will be obvious, the age of onset can be 20-30 years old or 50 years old, the patient shows poor limb balance, unstable gait, and some patients can not walk and need to do a wheelchair.

In addition, carbon monoxide poisoning can also cause cerebellar atrophy; Traumatic cerebellar atrophy is also common; Drug poisoning can also cause cerebellar atrophy.

If the brain atrophy is severe, you should go to the hospital and listen to the doctor's advice, so that you will be given the best method.

When cerebral atrophy is more severe, it can cause more complications in patients, which may cause patients to have muscle dysfunction, the occurrence of Parkinsonism, and may also cause patients to have gait instability, nystagmus and impaired consciousness, increased muscle tone, hyperreflexia, social communication difficulties and mild mental retardation, which may cause patients with cerebral atrophy to be at risk.

Brain atrophy may lead to memory loss or judgment and may cause cognitive or urinary dysfunction. A small number of patients may also have slurred speech or unresponsiveness.

Brain atrophy may be a sign of trauma to the brain, neurological pathologies, and aging. In the early stage, it is necessary to follow the doctor's instructions to take oral drugs to improve cognitive function**, and it can also be combined with drug conditioning for nutritional nerves. During the period of medication, the recovery of the condition and the effect of the drug should be closely observed, and the hospital should be rechecked regularly.

Brain atrophy may cause changes in higher intelligence, memory loss, and impairment of time, place, and character orientation.

There are cases where I can't remember what just happened, I said I didn't eat after eating, I can't go home by myself when I go out, I get lost, and I don't know my family. Speech impairment, inability to find appropriate words, repetition of language or inability to speak, and impaired judgment.

Brain atrophy is a phenomenon, when I do CT MRI, I find that the cortex of the brain is thinned, the sulci gyrus is deepened, and the fullness of the brain is compared with other people, or compared with his own ** before, it is not so good, this is brain atrophy. Brain atrophy is like wrinkles, it can be a physiological phenomenon, as we age, the fullness of the brain is not so much, and it gradually declines. It is only when it shows clinical symptoms that we treat it as a pathological phenomenon that requires intervention.

Pathological phenomenon, that is, it has a decline in cognitive function, such as the type of conjugal patients have near-memory loss, forgetting everything at the touch of the claw, often repeating the same problem repeatedly, and unable to remember it. In addition, the language is becoming poorer and poorer, it is difficult to find words when speaking, it is easy to get lost in unfamiliar places, which is an obstacle to spatial structure, and there will be some apraxia and agnosia, which means that he has a decline in cognitive function.

Patients may also have a decline in their ability to live in daily life, which used to be able to manage their finances very well, but now they can't fry it, and even forget whether they put salt in cooking. Then there will be abnormalities in mental behavior, such as Bu Naji said that he is easily irritable, easy to be angry, easy to be anxious, and depressed, which means that he has dementia in old age, and he needs to intervene for these needs**.

Brain atrophy refers to a phenomenon in which the brain tissue itself is organically damaged due to various reasons. The pathological manifestations are a decrease in the volume of brain tissue, a decrease in the number of cells, and an enlargement of the submembranous space of the ventricles and arachnoid foci. The disease mostly occurs in people over 50 years old, the course of the disease can be up to several years to decades, more men than women, and can be divided into diffuse brain atrophy (including cortical atrophy, cerebellar atrophy and cortex, cerebellum, brainstem atrophy) and localized brain atrophy (more common after localized brain organic lesions such as trauma, vascular disease, intracranial localized ** infection, etc.).

Brain atrophy is a neuroimaging manifestation of many diseases, as it was originally named after the decrease in the size of brain tissue and the enlargement of the ventricles during CT or MRI examinations.

Brain atrophy is actually a phenomenon that reduces the number of brain cells and shrinks the volume of brain tissue due to various reasons. This condition can be physiological or pathological. The physiological cause is that brain cells naturally undergo apoptosis with age, which leads to brain tissue atrophy.

Pathological causes may be related to illness or trauma. For example, cerebral infarction and cerebral hemorrhage, which are the most common in the elderly, will lead to local brain atrophy after recovery, and some neurological degenerative diseases may even cause global brain atrophy. Because the regeneration ability of brain tissue cells is very weak, the drugs that can promote the regeneration of brain cells that can be used at present do not have a particularly good function in promoting the growth of nerve cells in the human body.

Therefore, it is very difficult to recover after brain atrophy, and there is no good way to recover.

Cerebral atrophy refers to the phenomenon of organic lesions of brain cells due to various reasons, resulting in a decrease in the number of brain cells, a decrease in size, and a loss of weight. Brain atrophy can be caused by a variety of diseases. The main cause of cerebral atrophy is long-term chronic ischemia of cerebral blood vessels, which leads to a decrease in the deformability of red blood cells, insufficient effective blood perfusion of microvessels, brain tissue is in a state of chronic ischemia and hypoxia, and the morphology and function of brain cells are affected, that is, brain atrophy is formed.

Therefore, cerebrovascular disease is the most common disease that causes cerebral atrophy, and gas poisoning, intracranial infection, and hereditary metabolic encephalopathy can cause cerebral atrophy.