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Disinhibition, Apathy, Indifference, Fatigability, Complaining, and Negativism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2005

Joy Webster  and
George T. Grossberg
Joy Webster
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, St. Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A.
George T. Grossberg
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, St. Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A.
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A wide range of neuropsychiatric disturbances, which include noncognitive behavioral problems and mood changes, can accompany the unrelenting cognitive deterioration seen in patients with Alzheimer's disease. Aggression, agitation, paranoia, hallucinations, sleep disturbances, or depression occur in more than 50% of patients with Alzheimer's disease, both those living in the community and those cared for in nursing homes. Disinhibition, apathy, indifference, fatigability, complaining, and negativism, as well as incontinence, changes in appetite, and sexual disturbances, also occur in patients with dementia.

Type
Clinical Perspectives: What Should We Be Studying?
Information
International Psychogeriatrics , Volume 8 , Issue S3 , May 1997 , pp. 403 - 408
Copyright
© 1996 International Psychogeriatric Association

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