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| Do personality traits predict the occurrence of Alzheimer's disease? | | Author(s) | Wolfgang Meins, Jörg Dammast |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 15, no 2, February 2000 |
| Pages | pp 120-124 |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Parkinson's disease ; Personality ; Assessment procedures for mental patients ; Germany. |
| Annotation | It has been difficult to firmly establish whether particular personality traits of Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients in former times are really premorbid characteristics or early preclinical manifestations of the disease. This German study considers whether specific premorbid personality traits can be discerned in patients with AD. Included were 56 consecutive outpatients of a memory clinic with probable AD and 65 controls with Parkinson's disease (PD). Premorbid personality traits were assessed using the relative rating version of the Munich Personality Test (MPT). The AD patients showed higher neuroticism than the PD controls. In comparison with MPT normative values for psychiatric inpatients, the AD patients scored significantly lower on neuroticism and higher on frustration tolerance and rigidity. Results support the assumption of specific premorbid characteristics in AD patients, i.e. increased neuroticism and rigidity. More research is needed to confirm the existence of typical premorbid personality traits in AD. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000502007 A |
| Classmark | EA: CR6: DK: DA:4C: 767 |
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