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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-4-30
pubmed:abstractText
Despite the realization that personality change is a core feature of frontotemporal dementia (FTD), little work has been performed using personality as a diagnostic tool for this disease. Likewise, personality change in Alzheimer's disease (AD) has long been recognized, but generally has not been used for diagnostic purposes. We introduce novel social-personality measures (Big Five Inventory, Interpersonal Adjectives Scale and Interpersonal Measure of Psychopathy) in the differential diagnosis of AD and temporal subtypes of FTD, and integrate these measures with traditional behavioural and neuropsychological methods commonly used in diagnosing dementia. We present four cases: an FTD patient with predominantly left temporal degeneration, an FTD patient with predominantly right temporal degeneration and two patients with Alzheimer's disease (one with mild and the other with moderate impairment). Results show the diagnostic utility of these measures in differentiating among temporal subtypes of FTD and moderate AD. Right temporal FTD, in particular, shows profound shifts in personality and interpersonal behaviour, as well as a striking lack of insight into these shifts. In addition to diagnostic purposes, we discuss how measures of personality and interpersonal behaviour can be utilized as an important component of understanding disease susceptibility and risk, as well as offering insights into the neuroanatomical underpinnings of personality and social behaviour.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
1355-4794
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
7
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
131-43
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-3-1
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:11320161-Aged, pubmed-meshheading:11320161-Aged, 80 and over, pubmed-meshheading:11320161-Alzheimer Disease, pubmed-meshheading:11320161-Antisocial Personality Disorder, pubmed-meshheading:11320161-Dementia, pubmed-meshheading:11320161-Diagnosis, Differential, pubmed-meshheading:11320161-Dominance, Cerebral, pubmed-meshheading:11320161-Female, pubmed-meshheading:11320161-Frontal Lobe, pubmed-meshheading:11320161-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:11320161-Interpersonal Relations, pubmed-meshheading:11320161-Longitudinal Studies, pubmed-meshheading:11320161-Male, pubmed-meshheading:11320161-Middle Aged, pubmed-meshheading:11320161-Neuropsychological Tests, pubmed-meshheading:11320161-Personality Assessment, pubmed-meshheading:11320161-Personality Disorders, pubmed-meshheading:11320161-Personality Inventory, pubmed-meshheading:11320161-Self Concept, pubmed-meshheading:11320161-Social Behavior, pubmed-meshheading:11320161-Temporal Lobe
pubmed:year
2001
pubmed:articleTitle
Novel applications of social-personality measures to the study of dementia.
pubmed:affiliation
University of California, San Francisco, Memory and Aging Center, Department of Neurology, San Francisco, CA 94143-1207, USA. mychack@itsa.ucsf.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Case Reports, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't