Associated Diseases and Disorders
The pattern and rate of progression of cerebral atrophy depends on the disease involved. Diseases that cause cerebral atrophy include:
- stroke and traumatic brain injury
- Major depressive disorder
- Alzheimer's disease, Pick’s disease, senile dementia, fronto-temporal dementia, and vascular dementia
- cerebral palsy, in which lesions (damaged areas) may impair motor coordination
- Huntington's disease, and other genetic disorders that cause build-up of toxic levels of proteins in neurons
- leukodystrophies, such as Krabbe disease, which destroy the myelin sheath that protects axons
- mitochondrial encephalomyopathies, such as Kearns-Sayre syndrome, which interfere with the basic functions of neurons
- multiple sclerosis, which causes inflammation, myelin damage, and lesions in cerebral tissue
- infectious diseases, such as encephalitis, neurosyphilis, and AIDS, in which an infectious agent or the inflammatory reaction to it destroys neurons and their axons
- epilepsy, in which lesions cause abnormal electrochemical discharges that result in seizures
- Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, and other Eating Disorders
- Malnutrition
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