Is there an association between
brain size and Neurodegeneration?
There are more variables than brain size involved.
If you had a brain MRI performed, and the doctor who interpreted the
results rendered your smaller brain like a death sentence, then we have a
shared experience. I fled to a specialist - a neuropsychologist - and he stated
the same finding was “too vague to have clinical significance.”
It would
concern me more if I were symptomatic.
After months of research, and discussions with every brain specialist
under the sun, I stumbled across this insight on my own. My MRI shows I have no
“hemosiderin (or iron) deposits” no signs of vascular damage or other
anomalies, indicative of a neurodegenerative disease or substance abuse.
I drew my own conclusions and shared them with a psychiatrist, and he
agreed. I would be more concerned if your MRI showed an accumulation of iron
deposits with the global mild atrophy. Though not definitive, together they
would be more indicative of neuropathology.
Reference: Robert Pfaff
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