Apathy is defined as a disorder of motivation that expresses itself at an emotional, cognitive and behavioural level. Apathy can occur as a symptom and a syndrome. In the recent years diagnostic criteria and a number of scales for measuring apathy in elderly with psychiatric or neurological disor...
BR Stanton,A Carson 摘要: Apathy is an under-recognised and underestimated problem for people with chronic neurological disorders. Despite being common and disabling, it is seldom volunteered as a symptom by patients or even their caregivers. Yet apathy undoubtedly has an important impact on ...
(45.3% males, median age 54), and 71 people without stroke (26.8% males, median age 45) completed measures of apathy (DAS, Apathy Evaluation Scale, AES), depression (Patient Hospital Questionnaire, PHQ-9) and anxiety (Generalised Anxiety Disorder scale, GAD-7) as part of an online survey...
Apathy is a lack of motivation or lack of interest in things around you. It can be a symptom of neurological problems such as Parkinson's disease or Alzheimer's disease. It also can be the result of a mental health problem such as schizophrenia. Although the symptoms can look the same, ...
7 Apathy is a disorder of motivation, manifesting itself as reduced interest, goal-directed cognition, and emotional expression.8 Apart from dementia, apathy also occurs in MCI9 and community-dwelling older people.10 It has high clinical relevance because patients with apathy tend to withdraw from...
Marcos SerranoDue?as,P Martínezmartín,T Merchán,R Bravo,M Serrano 摘要: Parkinson's disease is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by motor, autonomic, and neuropsychiatric symptoms, among the latter, apathy has been found to be present in up to 70% of patients. The main objective of...
Non-motor symptoms such as neuropsychiatric and cognitive dysfunction have been found to be common in Parkinson's disease (PD) but the relation between such symptoms is poorly understood. We focused on alexithymia, an impairment of affective and cognitive emotional processing, as there is evidence ...
In this analysis, “patient” was defined as 1 and “healthy control” as 0. It was found that only “patient” had a significant effect in all tests, indicating that differences in BRB-N scores between MS patients and healthy controls remained significant even after controlling for the ...
social behaviour). As a result, the questionnaires used and the specific domains they encompass have a large influence on the direction and magnitude of the association that can be expected between apathy and impulsivity. For example, because it does not include a social sub-scale, the AES alon...
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.Apathy (also called impassivity or perfunctoriness) is a state of indifference, or the suppression of emotions such as concern, excitement, motivation and passion. An apat...