If the human body is likened to a small army, the brain is the highest command center.
The activities of all organs and tissues of the human body actually come from the domination of the brain, and the brain is also the main place for people to think and remember.
Once there is a brain problem, the effects will be systemic, and patients will even be at risk of death.
As for the lesions of the brain, in fact, everyone stays in the "cerebrovascular disease" aspect. But in fact, there are many types of brain lesions, such as brain atrophy is one of them.
It refers to an organic lesion of brain tissue caused by various factors, and eventually the brain tissue gradually atrophises and a series of symptoms appear.
The disease is more common in people over 50 years of age, and the duration of the disease can reach years or even decades, and the prevalence is significantly higher in men than in women.
According to the current clinical data, there are many factors that may cause patients to shrink their brains, such as the cerebrovascular disease mentioned above.
In addition, genetic inheritance, brain trauma, meningitis, gas or alcohol poisoning, thyroid lesions, etc., may cause damage to the brain parenchyma, nerve cell atrophy degeneration and disappearance.
In mainland china, the most common cause of brain atrophy is actually hypertension, dyslipidemia, cerebral arteriosclerosis and other diseases.
So the question is, brain atrophy appears, what are the symptoms?
1. Systemic symptoms: In the early stage of brain atrophy, patients often have systemic symptoms, such as often feeling dizzy and headache, sleeping quality is getting worse and worse, hands and feet are tingling, behavior is becoming more and more sluggish, and answering questions is not answered.
However, because these symptoms are particularly similar to diseases such as stroke sequelae and hypertension, it is difficult to attract the attention of patients and families.
After that, with the continuous development of the disease, the patient's mental decline becomes more and more obvious, and the ability to understand, judge, and calculate gradually declines;
2. Memory impairment: the brain is the memory center of the human body, if there is brain tissue atrophy, especially after the cerebellum atrophy, the patient will have different degrees of memory impairment, and this change occurs earlier.
In the initial stages, patients often have symptoms such as frequent loss of goods and failure to do the promised things, as the disease continues to develop;
Patients cannot correctly answer their names and ages, do not know how to eat and are hungry, do not know the way home after going out, gradually cannot take care of themselves, and even urinary and urinary incontinence, completely lose their memory, and eventually become dementia;
3. Personality and behavior changes: personality changes are also early symptoms of brain atrophy, and patients may initially appear depressed, uninterested in anything, and do not like to socialize and talk to people.
Some patients are manifested as emotional deficiencies, such as the loss of original ideals and various desires, and the lack of return to their children and relatives.
There are also a small number of patients whose lifestyle habits are stereotyped and strange, and their personalities become more and more impatient, repetitive in language, and more and more suspicious and selfish.
This change is very similar to Alzheimer's disease, and patients may even experience symptoms such as mania and forgetfulness.
Finally, I would like to remind everyone that everyone has the day of old age, and at this age, what they really need is the care and companionship from their children.
Therefore, as a child, you should pay more attention to observe the abnormal changes of parents, if the parents suddenly appear the above symptoms recently, beware of the arrival of brain atrophy signal, timely medical examination is necessary.