"Premorbid" personality of patients with Parkinson's disease

To elucidate the possible existence of a so called "premorbid parkinsonian personality" we studied 33 patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) and 66 controls who did not differ in age, sex, geographic origin, and cultural level, with the Spanish version of the Minnesota Multiphasic Per...

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Published in:	Acta neurologica Vol. 14; no. 3; p. 208
Main Authors:	Jiménez-Jiménez, F J, Santos, J, Zancada, F, Molina, J A, Irastorza, J, Fernández-Ballesteros, A, Roldán, A
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Italy 01-06-1992
Subjects:	Aged Depression Female Humans Male Middle Aged MMPI Parkinson Disease - complications Parkinson Disease - psychology Personality Personality Disorders - complications Sex Factors
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Summary:	To elucidate the possible existence of a so called "premorbid parkinsonian personality" we studied 33 patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) and 66 controls who did not differ in age, sex, geographic origin, and cultural level, with the Spanish version of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI). Females of the PD group obtained significantly higher scores than females of the control group for the scales of hypochondria (p less than 0.01), depression (p less than 0.01), hysteria (p less than 0.05), and social introversion (p less than 0.01). The scores of the males with PD in all of the clinical scales of MMPI did not differ significantly from those of the male controls. These results, despite the difficulty of interpretation of a test done in a retrospective way, would agree with the hypothesis previously suggested of the possible existence of a "premorbid" parkinsonian personality, at least in females.
ISSN:	0001-6276