title: The pre-morbid personality of patients with Parkinson's disease.
abstract: 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.
mesh_terms: D000374:Aggression / Q000523:psychology; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D007439:Introversion, Psychological; D009014:Morals; D010300:Parkinson Disease / Q000523:psychology*; D010551:Personality; D012094:Repression, Psychology; D012925:Social Conformity