What happens when brain atrophy is severe?

Brain atrophy refers to the phenomenon of atrophy caused by organic lesions in the brain tissue itself due to various reasons. Physiologically, the volume of brain tissue is reduced, the number of cells is reduced, and the ventricles and subarachnoid space are enlarged. The disease mostly occurs in people over 50 years old, the course of the disease can reach several years to decades, more men than women, 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 reduction in the size of brain tissue and the enlargement of the ventricles during CT or MRI examinations.

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 have dizziness and headache, insomnia and dreams, soreness in the waist and knees, numbness in the hands and feet, tinnitus and deafness, and gradually become unresponsive, slow in movement, muttering, and answering questions that are not answered. In the physical aspect, it is often manifested as senile state of dragon clock, white tooth loss, 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 their 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, and are often entangled by some minor discomforts; or manifested by 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 can 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, they can't correct their names, ages, eat, don't know how to eat, don't know how to go home, and collect waste paper and sundries 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, was incontinent, slurred speech, slurred speech, and finally became completely demented.

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.

1. Speech is extremely unclear, unable to control the pitch, even unable to speak, illegible writing, difficulty swallowing.

2. Unable to stand, or even sit up, need to rely on a wheelchair to walk, or stay in bed, unable to take care of themselves.

3 If the nerves in the brain are affected, the patient's intelligence will be affected.