PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - C J Todes
AU  - A J Lees
TI  - The pre-morbid personality of patients with Parkinson's disease.
AID  - 10.1136/jnnp.48.2.97
DP  - 1985 Feb 01
TA  - Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
PG  - 97--100
VI  - 48
IP  - 2
4099  - http://jnnp.bmj.com/content/48/2/97.short
4100  - http://jnnp.bmj.com/content/48/2/97.full
SO  - J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry1985 Feb 01; 48
AB  - A review of the extensive descriptive literature suggests that many Parkinsonian patients exhibit an emotional and attitudinal inflexibility, a lack of affect and a predisposition to depressive illness, which may antecede the development of motor abnormalities by several decades. Introspective, over-controlled, anhedonic personality traits together with suppressed aggresivity are frequently found. It is unclear whether these behavioural patterns are relevant aetiological factors or prodromal symptoms of the disease.