[The initial symptoms of cerebral atrophy (author's transl)].

The paper reports about the initial symptoms of cerebral atrophy. A general view of the special literature about the aetiology, diagnosis and clinical forms of cerebral atrophy will be given. The initial symptoms of cerebral atrophy will be given. The initial symptoms of cerebral atrophy, their structure, the connections between them and their social consequences will be discussed. The difficulties of the use of a standard psychopathometrical trial including all the symptoms will be described. We think that the description of symptoms in each individual case is more precise than a collective description under a vague syndrom-labelling.