Personality Traits and Behavioural and Psychological Symptoms in Patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment

Background and Aims: Both personality changes and behavioural and psychological symptoms (BPS) may be associated with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) in later life and help identify incipient dementia. We wished to investigate the links between personality and BPS in MCI. Method: We studied premorbi...

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Published in:Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders 2013-02, Vol.35 (1-2), p.87-97
Main Authors: Mendez Rubio, Montserrat, Antonietti, J.P., Donati, A., Rossier, J., von Gunten, A.
Format: Article
Language:English
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Activities of Daily Living
Aged
Anxiety - diagnosis
Anxiety - psychology
Apathy
Behavior
Biological and medical sciences
Cognitive Dysfunction - psychology
Degenerative and inherited degenerative diseases of the nervous system. Leukodystrophies. Prion diseases
Depression - diagnosis
Depression - psychology
Educational Status
Extraversion (Psychology)
Female
Humans
Male
Medical sciences
Middle Aged
Mood Disorders - psychology
Neurology
Neuropharmacology
Neuropsychological Tests
Neurotic Disorders - chemically induced
Neurotic Disorders - psychology
Original Research Article
Personality
Personality Tests
Pharmacology. Drug treatments
Psychoanaleptics: cns stimulant, antidepressant agent, nootropic agent, mood stabilizer
Psychoanaleptics: cns stimulant, antidepressant agent, nootropic agent, mood stabilizer..., (alzheimer disease)
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopharmacology
Social Behavior
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Summary:Background and Aims: Both personality changes and behavioural and psychological symptoms (BPS) may be associated with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) in later life and help identify incipient dementia. We wished to investigate the links between personality and BPS in MCI. Method: We studied premorbid personality traits as estimated 5 years back and their changes in 83 control subjects and 52 MCI patients using the revised NEO Personality Inventory for the Five-Factor Model completed by a proxy. Information on BPS was obtained using the Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI). Analyses were controlled for current depression and anxiety. Results: Premorbid neuroticism and openness to experience were associated with the total NPI score. The changes in neuroticism, extraversion, openness to experiences, and conscientiousness were associated with apathy and affective symptoms. Conclusions: Personality changes and BPS occur in MCI. The occurrence of affective BPS and apathy is associated with both premorbid personality traits and their changes.
ISSN:1420-8008
1421-9824
DOI:10.1159/000346129