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. 1985 Feb;48(2):97–100. doi: 10.1136/jnnp.48.2.97

The pre-morbid personality of patients with Parkinson's disease.

C J Todes, A J Lees
PMCID: PMC1028206  PMID: 3884742

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.

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