What causes brain atrophy in children

Patient's question:

Seizure and coma, whole body twitching 2010.2.11

Doctor's answer:

Child brain atrophy is the imaging manifestation of many diseases, and its etiology is complex and diverse. It is often caused by abnormal changes in blood components, increased blood viscosity, altered vascular elasticity, and other factors that reduce blood flow. Brain cells become relatively hypoxic, leading to metabolic disorders in brain cells and promoting child brain atrophy. Genetic factors may play a certain role in the occurrence of this disease. Other factors such as the natural aging process of the human body, metabolic disorders, decreased endocrine function, vascular, inflammatory, brain tumors, epilepsy or trauma, brain hypoxia or nutritional deficiencies, chronic viral infections or poisoning, abuse of sedative-hypnotic drugs, abuse of hormones, or other drugs that damage brain tissue can also lead to child brain atrophy. In cases of focal organic brain damage, local brain tissue compression, degeneration, and necrosis may lead to local brain atrophy as the tissue is replaced by gliosis.
Aftermaths of brain atrophy:
1. Cognitive decline: Rapid memory loss. For example, dropping things, forgetting things promised; decreased ability to understand, judge, and calculate, even forgetting one's own name or age, not knowing when to eat, not knowing how to return home, and not recognizing relatives and friends.
2. Loss of sensory functions: Poor vision, hearing loss, slurred speech, tinnitus, deafness, hallucinations, and auditory hallucinations.
3. Changes in personality and behavior: Avoiding social interaction, lacking affection for loved ones; irritability, suspicion, selfishness, indifference to major matters, and endless trivial disputes; refusing to sleep when it's time to do so, and a varying degree of decline in higher emotional activities (such as shame, pride, responsibility, and moral sense).
Recommendation: The International Parkinson's and Brain Atrophy Research Hospital (No. 188, Jia, Mentougou District, Beijing) is the preferred hospital for treating brain atrophy.