What are the common symptoms of cerebral atrophy?

As the "highest command system" of the body, the brain plays a vital role, controlling the body's functional systems such as motor control, emotional expression, and logical thinking. So what are the symptoms of brain atrophy?

Symptoms of brain atrophy:

1. Systemic symptoms

In the early stages of the disease, patients often experience dizziness, headaches, insomnia, weak waist and knees, numbness in the hands and feet, tinnitus and deafness; gradually they become unresponsive, slow in movement, mumbling to themselves, and answering questions irrelevantly. In terms of the body, it is often manifested as senility, graying of the hair and loss of teeth, dry skin, hyperpigmentation, or hemiplegia, epilepsy, ataxia, tremor, etc. Neurological symptoms may be present or absent.

2. Memory impairment

Recent memory impairment occurs early, such as frequently losing items, forgetting promises, etc. As the disease progresses, memory is completely lost.

3. Changes in personality and behavior

Personality changes are often an early symptom of this disease. Patients become depressed and dislike interacting with others; or they have no ideals, desires, and lack affection for their children and relatives; their living habits are rigid and strange, their personalities are irritable, they talk more, or they are long-winded and repetitive; or they are suspicious and selfish, pay special attention to their own health and safety, and are often entangled in some minor discomforts. Or it may manifest as delirium or mania, with hallucinations, visual hallucinations, auditory hallucinations, aphasia, and agnosia; all the patient's higher-level emotional activities, sense of shame, responsibility, honor, and morality, etc. are reduced to varying degrees, and changes in sleep rhythm may also occur.

4. Mental decline and dementia

It manifests as a comprehensive decline in intellectual activities such as understanding, judgment, and calculation ability, inability to adapt to social life, and difficulty in doing work and housework; gradually, the patient cannot correctly answer his or her own name and age, does not know when he or she is hungry or full when eating, does not know the way home after going out, and collects waste paper and other items as treasures. In the later stages of the disease, the patient was bedridden all day, unable to take care of himself, unable to distinguish between relatives and strangers, incontinent, slurred speech, unclear articulation, and incoherent speech, eventually becoming completely demented.

I believe that after reading the above, you have a certain understanding of the symptoms of cerebral atrophy. Brain atrophy is extremely harmful and difficult to cure, so it must be taken seriously. The best treatment for any disease is prevention. How to prevent brain atrophy? What are the scientific prevention methods?

How to prevent brain atrophy is the most scientific:

1. Identify the cause of the disease and prevent the disease. For those with a clear cause, prevent the disease by targeting the cause and eliminate the pathogenic factors as soon as possible. For example, actively prevent cerebrovascular disease, prevent or delay the occurrence of cerebral arteriosclerosis as much as possible; infectious diseases of the brain should be prevented from occurring.

2. Combine work and rest, exercise moderately to avoid excessive fatigue, and participate in some physical labor and sports within your ability to strengthen your physical fitness and enhance the body's disease resistance. Also get enough sleep and rest.

3. Promote family planning and prevent marriage between close relatives. Close relatives with blood relationship are not allowed to marry. For patients whose immediate family members suffer from hereditary neurological diseases, the birth of fetuses should be reduced as much as possible to reduce the incidence of such diseases.

4. Balanced nutrition, less meat and more vegetables. Adjust your diet. The diet should be light and nutritious, and eat less fatty and greasy foods. How to prevent brain atrophy? Mainly eat a high-protein and high-vitamin diet, eat more vegetables, fruits and iodine-containing foods, pay attention to balanced nutrition, abstain from alcohol and smoking, and develop good eating habits.