RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 The pre-morbid personality of patients with Parkinson's disease.
JF Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
JO J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd
SP 97
OP 100
DO 10.1136/jnnp.48.2.97
VO 48
IS 2
A1 C J Todes
A1 A J Lees
YR 1985
UL http://jnnp.bmj.com/content/48/2/97.abstract
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.