Diabetes encephalopathy is any brain disease, damage, or malfunction that derives from diabetes. The complications may include memory loss, dementia, and decreases in literacy. People may also experience difficulty concentrating, lethargy, perception disability, and poor judgment. Furthermore, many patients report problems with the limbs such as poor coordination of the limbs and muscle twitching. According to the National Institutes of Health, diabetes encephalopathy is now considered a complication of diabetes.

There are a number of different kinds of diabetic encephalopathy, but Cerebrovascular Disease is the most common. Diabetes-site.com reports that people who have metabolic problems such as diabetes often have a very high blood viscosity. When blood sugar levels stay high for a long time, they thicken the capillary basement membrane and narrow the capillaries causing blood flow to decrease. When there is not enough blood flow to the brain, it causes problems with perception and comprehension.

Early intervention can …