The cause of mental atrophy should be treated according to the cause: 1, if the mental atrophy is caused by lack of sleep, staying up late or neurological dysfunction, the main thing is to adjust the sleep and adjust the state of the plant nerve function to improve, you can take oral sleeping pills, such as diazepam, eszopiclone, dextrozopiclone to adjust the sleep and adjust the plant nerve function, you can take oral glutamate tablets, vitamin B1 to adjust. When the vegetative nerve function and sleep are adjusted, the symptoms of mental atrophy will be effectively relieved. 2. Patients who are elderly and have sudden onset of mental atrophy should pay attention to the presence of infection, fever, cardiac insufficiency and other problems, and need to find the cause and carry out symptomatic treatment.