Talk:Cerebral atrophy

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Wikipedia Project

I am an undergraduate psychology student at Nebraska Wesleyan University and will be working with my instructor Michele Petracca and the APS Wikipedia Initiative to improve this article this semester. Any suggestions or input along the way would be greatly appreciated. Anna jurgens (talk) 02:31, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

I love how you organized the page. It has good flow and a logical order. I also like how you listed the different causes to cerebral atrophy. With that said, perhaps it would also be informative to write brief descriptions of what each cause or disorder is that leads to cerebral atrophy. Some of them already have brief descriptions so I was just thinking to finish the descriptions in that section. Perhaps also too you could give a brief description of "The pattern and rate of progression of cerebral atrophy depends on the disease involved" for each section of disorders or diseases. Otherwise I found the article easy to read, easy to follow and easy to understand. Plus I learned a little something about cerebral atrophy.Icecreamcooper (talk) 19:51, 22 April 2014 (UTC)

References

Torpedo Formation and Purkinje Cell Loss: Modeling their Relationship in Cerebellar Disease. Alpha-synuclein mRNA expression in oligodendrocytes in MSA. The amyloid hypothesis, time to move on: Amyloid is the downstream result, not cause, of Alzheimer's disease. MRI evaluation of grey matter atrophy and disease course in multiple sclerosis: an overview of current knowledge. A treatable neurometabolic disorder: glutaric aciduria type 1. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anna jurgens (talk • contribs) 02:36, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

References

Possible Article Summary

My first intention is to better organize this article, specifically the causes of atrophy. These can be organized into diseases (Alzheimer's and Huntingtons), infections (AIDS and syphilis), and injury (stroke). I also found many articles that went more in-depth on some of these causes that I believe would be helpful in further understanding brain degeneration. This will be the main area that I intend to improve and develop for this article. Another area I believe would be good for this article is to talk about how to reduce the risk of cerebral atrophy and ways to manage cerebral atrophy once cells are lost. These will be small improvements as I have not found as much on this but still believe they would be beneficial to more fully complete this article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anna jurgens (talk • contribs) 15:21, 12 March 2014 (UTC)

Peer Review

Anna,

You have some great content in this article and I was unable to detect any grammatical errors after quickly skimming your subheadings. My only suggestion would be to try and incorporate more in-text citations throughout your entire article to increase validity of your research. Otherwise, it looks good! Wood.ashleyb (talk) 01:51, 23 April 2014 (UTC)

Possible causes - chronic alcoholism

Alcohol–Related Brain Atrophy: Cerebral atrophy is commonly associated with alcoholism (Oscar-Berman 2007, González-Reimers et al. 2007). Even low amounts of alcohol consumption are also associated with decreases in brain size (Ding et al. 2004).

References:
- Oscar-Berman, M., and Marinkovic, K. Alcohol: Effects on neurobehavioral functions and the brain. Neuropsychology Review 17:239–257, 2007. PubMed
- González-Reimers, Emilio et al. Brain atrophy in alcoholics: Relationship with alcohol intake; liver disease; nutritional status, and inflammation. Alcohol and Alcoholism 42 (6): 533-538, 2007. Oxford Journals
- Ding, Jingzhong et al. Alcohol Intake and Cerebral Abnormalities on Magnetic Resonance Imaging in a Community-Based Population of Middle-aged Adults. Stroke 35: 16-21 , 2004 (online 2003). Stroke

Regards, --Stefan Bach7777 (talk) 15:40, 16 July 2014 (UTC)

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MEDRS needed badly

The sourcing for this article is very weak. Whole sections, multiple statements all biomedical information. Later sections seem reasonable but the first half needs work. If this stuff can't be clearly supported it will have to be trimmed. MrBill3 (talk) 12:47, 8 December 2018 (UTC)

causes doesn't mention ageing

The list of causes provides no details on ageing as a cause. Given that apparently everyone gets this if you grow old enough, it should be number one on the list. Right now it looks as if this is only caused by diseases. As I have no background in this area, I'm not sure what information to add. e.g. I have no data on differences based region/gender/genetics, or anything else relevant. If anyone can add this, please do.

— SkyLined (talk) 10:51, 14 October 2024 (UTC)

Sure, feel free to add. Here is one reference you could use to support ageing as a mechanism for atrophy: PMID: 34600936. Jaredroach (talk) 18:02, 14 October 2024 (UTC)

I have no idea what PMID: 34600936 means. I do not have a medical background. I am not comfortable writing about a topic I have no understanding of.

— SkyLined (talk) 18:27, 14 October 2024 (UTC)

symptoms section doesn't describe symptoms

The symptions section describes symptoms of various diseases that cause this but doesn't describe the symptoms caused by this. I'm considering removing it altogether as it's not relevant to the topic and might mislead people. — SkyLined (talk) 10:57, 14 October 2024 (UTC)

Done. Jaredroach (talk) 18:00, 14 October 2024 (UTC)