In medicine, the term encephalopathy literally and generically indicates any disease of the brain, including metabolic, toxic, infectious, neoplastic and degenerative diseases of the brain. It is therefore a wide variety of syndromes, each with different causes. , symptoms and treatments, with results in some cases fatal, but also reversible. Symptoms always depend on what type of encephalopathy it is. The common ones are:
- Progressive loss of memory and cognitive skills;
- Inability to concentrate;
- Progressive loss of knowledge;
- Lethargy.
Other neurological symptoms are:
- Tremor;
- Muscle atrophy;
- Dementia;
- Loss of the ability to speak;
- Myoclonia