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Diffuse cerebral atrophy
My father is a psychiatric patient recently he was not sleeping whole night even after consulting doctor later we took MRI, in impression Diffuse cerebral atrophy with small vessel ischemia mentioned.
What is the precautions and to whom we need to consult? Is it curable? How serious it is? All of sudden we are seeing so many changes.
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Please consult a psychiatrist & also take an opinion from a neurologist. What mri suggests is changes in brain ... related to dementia. In dementia you can have lot of behaviour changes. And definitely can exacerbate the existing psychiatric illness.
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What psychiatric issues he has got ?
Does he suffer from any issues with his memory?
Have you noticed any change in his personality?
Does he suffer from any medical issues like Diabetes,Hypertension ?
Did he had any stroke in the past.
We need to correlate symptoms with MRI
Some chronic psychiatric conditions can present with above brain changes which could have been further exaggerated by acute event
Please elaborate on symptoms
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Dr. Arjit Gaurav
Sexologist
20 yrs exp
Gandhinagar
diffusion cerebral atrophy is not dignostic value until memory loss is not there.
share MRI film
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Dr. Shabir Ahmad Dar
Addiction Psychiatrist
13 yrs exp
Srinagar
Ur father is suffering from dementia (mixed etiology).
Stop smoking
Maintain blood pressure
Social engagement
Quality sleep.
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u need to consult a psychiatrist
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dementia is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder .
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