Mild brain atrophy cannot be fully recovered with medication, but symptoms can be improved with medication, including the use of brain cell activators, such as olanzapine, and drugs to improve cognitive function, such as donepezil. Brain atrophy includes degenerative changes, degenerative diseases, non-degenerative diseases and so on.
1. Degenerative changes: the phenomenon of shrinking brain tissue volume that occurs with age is a normal condition. Patients do not have obvious symptoms and generally do not need special treatment.
2. Degenerative diseases: including Alzheimer’s disease, frontotemporal lobe dementia, dementia with Lewy bodies, etc. can have changes of brain atrophy. Through drug treatment to slow down the development of the disease, improve the patient’s clinical symptoms can not be cured. The patient’s memory can be improved by giving drugs such as olanzapine and fenelaxetine as prescribed by the doctor; and the cognitive ability can be improved by donepezil and carbadine.
3. Non-degenerative diseases: such as cerebral infarction, cerebral hemorrhage and so on. At the onset of the brain cells have been necrosis, which leads to brain atrophy, and brain cell necrosis can not be recovered, so the disease can not be completely cured.
In case of cerebrovascular disease, active secondary prevention should be carried out, for example, cerebral infarction needs to take aspirin, atorvastatin and other drugs for secondary prevention; patients with cerebral hemorrhage should actively control the blood lipid and blood glucose to make it reach the standard.
Cerebral atrophy may not be completely cured, but active treatment can significantly improve the patient’s quality of life, such as the discovery of changes in the condition should be promptly to the hospital, under the guidance of the physician treatment.