Open AccessPersonality Traits in the Siblings and Children of Patients with Frontotemporal Dementia: A Questionnaire-based Study
Author(s) -
Suresh Kumar Korada,
Sadanandavalli Retnaswami Chandra,
Vivek Benegal,
Meera Purushothaman,
Mariamma Philip
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
indian journal of psychological medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.417
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 0975-1564
pISSN - 0253-7176
DOI - 10.4103/0253-7176.198943
Subject(s) - frontotemporal dementia , psychology , clinical psychology , trait , big five personality traits , persistence (discontinuity) , personality , temperament and character inventory , disease , personality assessment inventory , empathy , psychiatry , dementia , medicine , social psychology , geotechnical engineering , computer science , engineering , programming language
Frontotemporal dementias (FLD) form a group of relatively young onset, male dominant dementias with significant behavioral abnormalities early in the course of the disease. Routine assessment suggested preexisting traits such as lack of empathy, self-directedness, and persistence in most of these persons even before the onset of disease. Hence, we decided the study, the siblings and children of patients for any specific traits and correlation with hexanucleotide expansion repeats if any traits were identified.