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Personality traits and frontal lobe dementia

Author(s) -

Lebert Florence,

Pasquier Florence,

Petit Henri

Publication year - 1995

Publication title -

international journal of geriatric psychiatry

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.28

H-Index - 129

eISSN - 1099-1166

pISSN - 0885-6230

DOI - 10.1002/gps.930101209

Subject(s) - apathy , dementia , frontal lobe , psychology , mood , personality , affect (linguistics) , personality changes , big five personality traits , psychiatry , clinical psychology , disease , medicine , cognition , psychoanalysis , communication

The diagnosis of frontal lobe dementia (FLD) involves the assessment of affect. Three affective states predominate in FLD: apathy, elation and emotionalism. Nineteen FLD patients were investigated for a relationship between affective changes and premorbid personality traits. The negative results support the hypothesis that mood changes in FLD have a neurological basis and are important in early diagnosis.

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