What symptom does brain atrophy have

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Brain atrophy is a common neuropsychiatric disease, which often occurs in the elderly. However, it has a great impact on the elderly's self-care in the later stage, causing great harm to the elderly's body and psychology. Understanding the symptoms of brain atrophy is helpful to the treatment of brain atrophy. Let's take a look at the following

What symptom does brain atrophy have

First: the initial stage of the disease: Patients with anxiety, depression, paranoia as the main performance state, there will be headache, dizziness, insomnia or drowsiness, obvious amnesia, cerebral artery insufficiency, memory decline and other signs. But at this stage, patients have not yet appeared cognitive dysfunction, CT, MRI can not detect brain atrophy, so it belongs to the early stage of disease, is the best period of prevention and treatment.

Second: early stage of disease: patients will have long-term headache, dizziness, forgetfulness (forgetting what to eat just after eating), insomnia, soreness of waist and knees, numbness of hands and feet, frequent urination and urgency of urination. Emotional behavior is obviously abnormal, suspicious, selfish, unskillful, slow and so on.   

Third: in the middle stage of the disease: the patient has disorientation (unable to find home, often forgetting the way), slow reaction, wrong answer, self talk, ataxia (unstable standing and walking, leaning forward and backward, unstable balance), cough, enuresis, tremor of hands and feet, and often has hallucinations and delusions.

matters needing attention

Patients have obvious dementia, intelligence and physical basic out of control, do not know what their name, how old. Unable to take the initiative to eat, incontinence, bedridden for many years, unable to take care of themselves, must be taken care of by others.