title: [Personality and dementia: a new perspective].
abstract: This article highlights some of the links between pre-morbid personality and clinical features of dementia. Indeed, personality characteristics forge an individual's coping strategies and thus influence the expression of behavioural and psychiatric syndromes of dementia (BPSD) or its precursor stages. Some personality traits such as neuroticism may impact on cognitive decline. BPSD being among the most important determinants of a patient's and their proxies' burden, a better understanding of the links between pre-morbid personality characteristics and BPSD will help define care strategies.
authors.affiliation: Service universitaire de psychiatrie de l'âge avancé, Département de psychiatrie, CHUV.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Donati
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Pocnet
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rossier
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: von Gunten
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging; D003704:Dementia / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000523:psychology*