Diffuse mild cortical atrophy means a little bit of shrinkage all over the brain cortex.
Cortical (brain-related) atrophy means wasting away and decrease in size of gray matter of brain. Diffuse means the wasting is generalizedGeneralized anxiety disorder, not confined to one particular...
The word cortical refers to 'cortex,' or the outer layer of an organ. Atrophy implies a decrease in size of an organ.
This refers to atrophy (i.e., loss of cells) in the frontal and parietal regions of the brain.