Objective: To find out the prevalence of Eysenck’s Personality type among the patients with different movement disorders.
To find out the relationship between cognitive impairments and Eysenck’s Personality type among the patients with different movement disorders.
To find out the relationship between Neuropsychiatric symptoms and Eysenck’s Personality type among the patients with different movement disorders.
Background: Personality and cognitive impairment are profoundly intersected; The Eysenck Personality Questionnaire-Revised (EPQ-R) is often used in dementia research to assess personality traits. Personality traits strongly influence cognitive impairment risk Personality itself also changes as dementia progresses.
Method: We recruited 71 patients from different outpatient departments (ophthalmology, Dermatology, Neurology) of Calcutta Medical College and Calcutta Medical Research Institute, among them 26 patients belong to different movement disorders (PD, PSP, VP, LBD, PDD). Eysenck’s Personality Questionnaire (Revised) was utilized to identify personality dynamics; Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) was utilized to estimate the cognitive status of the patients and Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI) have been used to identification of neuropsychiatric symptoms
Results: The mean age of these patients was 64 years (SD 9.28) and 84.6% were male and 13 (50%) patients are diagnosed as Parkinson’s disease Patients. Neuroticism presents among 75% of cognitive impaired patients, whereas 60.9% Psychoticism and 0% Extraversion present in cognitive impaired patient. Neuroticism presents in 43.8% in PD, 25% in PSP and 12.5% in LBD patients, high sten score indicate emotional liabilities, worries, anxiety and irritation. Psychoticism presents 52.2% in PD, 17.4% in PSP and 8.7% in LBD and VP patients, high sten score signifies tendency to develop different psychotic disorders also tends to show impulsive and aggressive behavior. Also we find out 0% of extraversion among all the patients. We have done descriptive analysis and correlations among personality dynamics and different neuropsychiatric symptoms but found no significant relationship.
Conclusion: As the personality dimension and cognition interrelated, it often tend to act as risk factor for dementia, to findout the significant relation we would like to test the same in a bigger population.
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M. Kulsum, M. Naaz, A. Das, A. Das, T. Dolai, S. Majumdar. Personality Dynamics and Cognitive Impairment and Related Neuropsychiatric Symptoms in Patience with Different Movement Disorders [abstract]. Mov Disord. 2026; 41 (suppl 1). https://www.mdsabstracts.org/abstract/personality-dynamics-and-cognitive-impairment-and-related-neuropsychiatric-symptoms-in-patience-with-different-movement-disorders/. Accessed October 1, 2026.« Back to 2026 International Congress
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