The obituary is often written by the funeral home or mortuary, but many people choose to write an obituary for their loved one that is published in the newspaper and included in the funeral program.
Cerebral atrophy is a common feature of many of the diseases that affect the brain.Atrophy of any tissue means a decrement in the size of the cell, which can be due to progressive loss of cytoplasmic proteins. In brain tissue, atrophy describes a loss of neurons and the connections between them.Atrophy can be generalized, which means that all of the brain has shrunk; or it can be focal, affecting only a limited area of the brain and resulting in a decrease of the functions that area of the brain controls.ome degree of cerebral shrinkage occurs naturally with age; after the brain completes growth and attains its maximum mass at around age 25, it gradually loses mass with each decade of life, although the rate of loss is comparatively tiny until the age of 60, when approximately .5 to 1% of brain volume is lost per year.
1 Sleeplessness may cause brain shrinkage. 2  A 2010 study linked chronic insomniacs to the loss in brain density, and researchers found, as Discovery News wrote, brain imaging has linked chronic insomnia to lower gray matter density in areas that regulate the brain's ability to make decisions and to rest.. A vegetable-heavy diet may cause brain shrinkage. 2  That's a simplistic way of saying a diet with a lack of the vitamin B12. 3  In a counter-intuitive finding in 2008, researchers found that the lack of a diet including the vitamin B12, found in meats and milk, isn't good for the brain.