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Impact of Personality on Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 2005

Wolfgang Meins
Wolfgang Meins
Affiliation:
Department of Geriatric Medicine, Albertinen Hospital, Hamburg, Germany.
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Compared with the rather uniform cognitive syndrome in Alzheimer's disease (AD), behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) are considerably more heterogeneous in terms of incidence, prevalence, and association with disease duration and severity of dementia (Hope et al., 1999). The neurobiologic basis of AD is obviously less of a determinant of noncognitive symptoms than of cognitive symptoms. Therefore, the possible psychological and social causes of BPSD, such as premorbid personality, should be considered. Underlying personality traits not only shape a person's response to normal aging, but also set the stage for a range of responses to age-related stress and brain disease (Agronin, 1998).

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Etiology
Information
International Psychogeriatrics , Volume 12 , Issue S1 , July 2000 , pp. 107 - 109
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© 2000 International Psychogeriatric Association

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