What is cortical atrophy?
Cortical atrophy is a medical diagnosis indicating brain cell degeneration and is therefore sometimes called "brain atrophy". The word "cortical" concerns the bark, the farthest part of the brain, which consists of six compound layers of connected neurons. The word "atrophy" concerns the action of wasting away or reducing volume. This problem can cause diseases such as rear cortical atrophy. The patient will show very different symptoms, depending on where atrophy is happening in the bark. In this disease, the atrophy occurs in the back cortex in the back of the brain, which is a part that contains neurons that process visual processing. As a result, patients have problems with their vision, including the problems of faces, reading and vision in the dark. The decrease in vision is inevitable with this disease as a more cell dies in this area of the brain. These symptoms are expressed by difficulty using tools, dressing, sitting on a chair, writing letters about the alphabet and spelling words. At a certain point in the course of himECE atrophy can spread to other areas of the brain and turn into a fully blown dementia. These patients show further degeneration of memory, language and cognitive capacity.
Cortical atrophy treatment in the rear cortical atrophy involves prescription drugs to slow down degeneration or help surviving brain cells to work more efficiently. Doctors often recommend that patients also supplement eRgotherapy drugs. Work therapists help the patient to adapt to everyday life and life independently as a joint, even with weak visual, motor and cognitive abilities. Some patients may be depressed or irritated in addressing rapid independence loss and can also benefit from antidepressant drugs. These approaches treat the symptoms of the disease, but there is no medicine.
Possible risk factors for the development of brain atrophy include tobacco use, alcohol use, HL damageAva and genetic predisposition. When brain cells begin to waste, patients have a lower life expectancy. Other diseases that include atrophy include Alzheimer's disease and other types of dementia. The brain atrophy occurs in all people as they age, but usually not in the clinical range.