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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
Abstract 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.