Cerebranic Syndrome: Causes, Symptoms, Treatment

The cerebrostenic syndrome is a nonspecific neurological syndrome, characterized by decreased efficiency, impaired attention and memory, increased fatigue, and headaches, severe depletion of the nervous system and various vegetative manifestations. In addition, there is an increase in the duration of sleep and a shorter waking time, emotional lability of the patient and motor anxiety. Cerebranic syndrome in children is often accompanied by increased congenital reflexes, spontaneous Moro reflex and vegetative disorders.

The main causes of cerebrostenic syndrome are the pathological course of pregnancy and subsequent childbirth, which caused a violation of oxygen supply to the brain of the baby. Also, other pathological conditions provoking the development of this syndrome include taking medications during pregnancy, intrauterine infections, prematurity, intracranial hemorrhage, sepsis, hemolytic disease, pneumonia.

Until recently, neonates diagnosed with cerebrosthenic syndrome did not survive, but at the present time, due to the development of skilled neonatal care, perinatal mortality rates have significantly decreased. And as a result, the number of children with learning disabilities and developmental disabilities has increased, as a distant result of the pathology of the period of newborn, childbirth and pregnancy. For the same reason, cerebrostenic syndrome occurs in adults.

Quite often cerebrosthenic syndrome develops in children of school and preschool age who suffered a concussion or brain trauma, meningitis, encephalitis, and general infections with toxic damage to brain tissue. In addition, this disease can develop in most children who have had to undergo surgical operations, and the impetus for its development is anemic, circulatory and histotoxic hypoxia.

Main clinical manifestations of cerebrosthenic syndrome:

- "irritable weakness";

- lethargy, general passivity, slowness of movements and thinking;

- increased fatigue and exhaustion even with insignificant mental stress;

- low background of mood;

- headaches against fatigue;

- dizziness and nausea;

- poor tolerance of heat and stuffiness, sudden changes in atmospheric pressure.

These manifestations are characterized by an intensification after vaccination, stressful situations, under the influence of intercurrent diseases and trauma. It is believed that for the post-traumatic cerebral palsy the most characteristic irritability, increased excitability, affective explosiveness, as well as hyperesthesia to bright light and sounds, and for postinfection - capriciousness, mood swings, tearfulness and feelings of discontent.

As practice shows, the treatment of such a disorder as cerebrosthenic syndrome should be started immediately after the first clinical manifestations of the disease. Treatment depends on how strongly the violations of certain functions are expressed, it should primarily be aimed at stimulating and restoring the normal functioning of central regulatory mechanisms. There is no single generally accepted method of treating this disorder. As a rule, therapeutic measures are symptomatic and are based on the experience and intuition of the doctor. Thus, if a patient has a convulsive syndrome, such drugs as diphenyl, phenobarbital, depaxin and finlepsin are prescribed. To stimulate metabolic processes in the brain tissues are shown amino acids, nootropic drugs and adaptogenes. In the treatment of hypertensive syndrome , diacarb is used, in the presence of muscle hypotension - proserin, and in the hypertension syndrome of muscles - dibazol and midocals. Cerebral circulation is improved with antispasmodics: dibazol, euphyllin, pentoxifylline and cinnarizine.