Cerebral atrophy is a common feature of many of the diseases that affect the brain. Atrophy of any tissue means a decrement in the size of the cell, which...
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Muscle atrophy is the loss of skeletal muscle mass. It can be caused by immobility, aging, malnutrition, medications, or a wide range of injuries or diseases...
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including the frontal lobe, limbic system, and cerebellum, with widespread cerebral atrophy, or brain shrinkage caused by neuron degeneration. This damage can...
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Centronuclear myopathy Cephalic disorder Cerebral aneurysm Cerebral arteriosclerosis Cerebral atrophy Cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical...
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not all elderly patients with enlarged ventricles have primary NPH. Cerebral atrophy can cause enlarged ventricles, as well, and is referred to as hydrocephalus...
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caused by late-stage syphilis and the chronic meningoencephalitis and cerebral atrophy that are associated with this late stage of the disease when left untreated...
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people with an alcohol use disorder who have evidence of cerebral atrophy. Cerebral atrophy increases the length the bridging veins have to traverse between...
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Keratosis follicularis-dwarfism-cerebral atrophy syndrome is a rare, presumably X-linked recessive genetic disorder characterized by keratosis follicularis...
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Cerebral palsy (CP) is a group of movement disorders that appear in early childhood. Signs and symptoms vary among people and over time, but include poor...
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(1990). "Leukoaraiosis: correlation of MR and CT findings with blood flow, atrophy, and cognition". AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 11 (2): 273–81. PMC 8334682. PMID 2107711...
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with associated cerebral atrophy. Cerebral atrophy reportedly appeared to be dose dependent with low-dose users having less atrophy than higher-dose...
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mammillary bodies of the posterior hypothalamus, as well as generalized cerebral atrophy. These brain regions are all parts of the limbic system, which is heavily...
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Psychology portal Outline of the human brain Outline of neuroscience Cerebral atrophy Cortical spreading depression Evolution of human intelligence Large-scale...
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subdural hygroma, when clinically warranted. Elderly patients with marked cerebral atrophy, and secondary widened subarachnoid CSF spaces, can also cause confusion...
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portal Adverse Childhood Experiences movement Biological psychiatry Cerebral atrophy Evidence-based medicine Evolutionary psychiatry Glossary of psychiatry...
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variant of Alzheimer's disease (AD). The disease causes atrophy of the posterior part of the cerebral cortex, resulting in the progressive disruption of complex...
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and lower back.[citation needed] Brain changes such as cerebral atrophy may occur. This atrophy is associated with areas of high glucocorticoid receptor...
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Huntington's disease (category Systemic atrophies primarily affecting the central nervous system)
right, but these changes are not, by themselves, diagnostic of HD. Cerebral atrophy can be seen in the advanced stages of the disease. Functional neuroimaging...
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team players, one third of the players were found to have central cerebral atrophy, i.e. brain damage. A 1999 study connected soccer to chronic traumatic...
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axial tomography scan (CAT scan) was performed, which showed severe cerebral atrophy. An EEG showed no measurable brain activity. The five physicians chosen...
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jitteriness, cerebral calcifications (accumulation of calcium deposits in the brain), white matter abnormalities, and cerebral atrophy; thus indicating...
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or gangrene of arms or legs). An untreated patient could develop cerebral atrophy.[citation needed] In cases that do not involve shock, treatment may...
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Carpenter syndrome Mosaic trisomy 12 Myopathy, epilepsy, and progressive cerebral atrophy Peroxisome biogenesis disorder 2A (Zellweger) Potocki-Shaffer syndrome...
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no enzyme activity will have major structural brain abnormalities and atrophy. Males with mutations that abolish, or almost abolish, enzyme activity...
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Randy Scruggs and he co-wrote. Conley died on April 10, 2019, from cerebral atrophy. Wood, Gerry. (1998). "Earl Thomas Conley". In The Encyclopedia of...
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Infantile cerebral and cerebellar atrophy with postnatal progressive microcephaly is a rare hereditary autosomal recessive malformation syndrome of the...
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memory and cognitive abilities in adolescents, and brain shrinkage (cerebral atrophy). Most notably, some studies have found that patients with Alzheimer's...
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brain atrophy. Cerebral amyloid angiopathy is found in 90% of the cases at autopsy, with 25% being severe CAA. Cerebral microbleeds (CMB) Cerebral microbleeds...
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Keratosis focal palmoplantar gingival Keratosis follicularis dwarfism cerebral atrophy Keratosis follicularis spinulosa decalvans Keratosis palmoplantaris...
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diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, show as a marker, an atrophy of the grey matter of the cerebral cortex. Other diseases of the central nervous system include...
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