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Personality Changes with the Onset of Alzheimer's Quiz - I.V. Ozone for Broken Brain 

[fa icon="calendar'] Jan 9, 2018 8:24:21 PM / by Winter Ninivaggi

Conscientiousness, Neuroticism and Dementia.


Take this quiz to find out how the onset of Alzheimer's affects personality traits and how to treat it naturally. 

1. Compared to patients without dementia, patients with dementia tend to be more __________.

A.  Conscientious
B.  Neurotic
C.  A and B
D. None of the above

2. True or False. In personality trait study findings, patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) scored lower on extraversion compared to patients without AD.

A. True
B. False
 

3. In study findings of personality traits in patients with AD, changes in __________ occurred more quickly than in patients without AD.

A. Conscientiousness
B. Neuroticism
C. A and B
D. None of the above

4. True or False. In study findings, patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) had a steeper decline in the “openness” personality trait than did patients without MCI.

A. True
B. False

5. Study findings of patients with AD suggest that __________ is more likely a risk factor for AD onset, rather than an effect of neuropathology of the condition.

A. Conscientiousness
B. Neuroticism
C. A and B
D. None of the above

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1. B. Neurotic - “Dementia patients do show personality characteristics that are different from those of their cognitively normal peers…Notably, they tend to be more neurotic and less conscientious.”

2. A. True - “The group that eventually developed AD scored higher on neuroticism, and lower on extraversion, openness, and conscientiousness than did the nonaffected subjects.”

3. D. None of the Above - "According to study findings published in JAMA Psychiatry, cited in an article published online in Clinical Neurology News, “[a]lthough patients with AD scored higher on neuroticism and lower on conscientiousness, those traits did not change any faster than personality traits in the nonaffected subjects.”

4. A. True - "In a study, with results published in JAMA Psychiatry and cited in an article published online in Clinical Neurology News, researchers “ran several temporal analyses on the data, and none found any significant temporal association with accelerated personality change in the AD group, the MCI group, or the all-cause dementia groups compared with the reference group, with one exception: Subjects with MCI showed a steeper decline in openness than did nonaffected subjects.”

5. C. A and B -  "In study findings, published in JAMA Psychiatry and cited in an article published online in Clinical Neurology News, the researchers “‘did not…find any evidence that neuroticism and conscientiousness changed significantly as the onset of disease approached. Thus, rather than an effect of AD neuropathology, these traits appear to confer risk for the development of the disease.’”

 For complete information, see:

 “Personality changes may not occur before Alzheimer’s onset.”

 

 

 

Winter Ninivaggi

Written by Winter Ninivaggi

Isadora Guggenheim, ND, FNP, RN, MS, CNS, LMT, owner of Second Nature Naturopathic Care, LLC
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