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Do personality traits predict the occurrence of Alzheimer's disease?

✍ Scribed by Wolfgang Meins; Jörg Dammast

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2000
Tongue
English
Weight
80 KB
Volume
15
Category
Article
ISSN
0885-6230

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✦ Synopsis

Objective. To identify speci®c premorbid personality traits in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD). Design. A prospective case-control study. Setting. A memory clinic of a department of geriatric medicine in a teaching hospital. Patients. Fifty-six consecutive patients with probable AD. Sixty-®ve controls with Parkinson's disease (PD). Measures. Premorbid personality traits were assessed using the relative rating version of the Munich Personality Test (MPT).

Results. The AD patients showed higher neuroticism than the controls with PD ( p 0.013). In comparison with MPT normative values for psychiatric inpatients, the AD patients scored signi®cantly ( p 5 0.05) lower on neuroticism and higher on frustration tolerance and rigidity.

Conclusion. Our results support the assumption of speci®c premorbid characteristics in AD patients, ie increased neuroticism and rigidity. More research is needed to con®rm the existence of typical premorbid personality traits in AD.

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