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...
In these stages, apathy may be considered as a disorder of motivation that embodies amotivational behavioral syndrome, is underpinned by combined dopaminergic and serotonergic denervation and is dopa-responsive. In contrast, in advanced PD patients, apathy may be considered as cognitive apat...
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 ...
Properties of the Apathy Scale (AS) for use on Parkinson's patients Parkinson's disease is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by motor, autonomic, and neuropsychiatric symptoms, among the latter, apathy has been fou... Marcos SerranoDue?as,P Martínezmartín,T Merchán,... - 《Advances...
To count as apathy, your symptoms must be serious enough or happen often enough to affect your social life, job, or other parts of your life. And they can't be due to drugs, alcohol, or any other substance you take. Apathy Causes A problem with areas in the front of your brain that...
The demonstration that motivational disorders are specifically related to the destruction of certain brain structures appears as one of the most important contributions of the French-speaking clinical neurology to neuroscience and knowledge of the brain substrate of mental function. Following the initial ob...
However there currently remains a lack of clarity as to whether these questionnaire-derived components map onto dissociable neurobiological systems. Here, we prefer to initially treat apathy as a generalized construct – a disorder of goal directed behaviour – before later suggesting possible dissociable...
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...
While our primary objective in this manuscript is to better understand possible functional alterations in the brain associated with apathy and depression in PD, general concerns have been raised about the validity of functional imaging as a measurement tool in studies of emotion, personality, and soci...
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...