What are the early signs of brain atrophy

Because brain atrophy can cause great harm, we should pay more attention to understanding its early signs, such as whether there are abnormal signs such as dizziness, headache, insomnia, or psychological disorders. If these signs appear, we must go to the hospital immediately for diagnosis.

1. Systemic symptoms

In the early stages of the disease, patients often experience dizziness, headaches, insomnia, weak waist and knees, numbness of hands and feet, tinnitus and deafness, and gradually become unresponsive, slow in movement, mumbling, and answering irrelevant questions. In terms of the body, it is often manifested as senility, graying of the hair and loss of teeth, dry skin, pigmentation, 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 early symptoms 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; or they have rigid and strange living habits, an irritable personality, speak more or are long-winded and repetitive, and are suspicious and selfish; or they pay special attention to their own health and safety, and are often entangled by some minor discomforts; or they show delirium or mania, and have 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.