Alteraciones del comportamiento en la enfermedad de Alzheimer. Datos de un estudio poblacional

• DOI: 10.33588/rn.3810.2003520
• Publication Date: 2019-02-15T08:17:33Z
• Authors: María de Toledo H...; Félix Bermejo Pareja; Saturio Vega Quiroga; David Muñoz García
• Keywords: Apathy; Irritability; Dysphoria

The purpose of this work was to study the characteristics behavioural disorders (non-cognitive or neuropsychiatric symptoms) presented by subjects with Alzheimer's disease from a sample population together their relation cognitive and functional impairment suffered these patients.NEDICES is longitudinal populational based on census neurological diseases in above age 64. In 2001, conducted situation 83 who had started suffering between 1994 1997. Due death number other reasons, only 32 them could be examined. Patients were administered structured interview scales referring state, capacity, severity dementia presence disorders.All patients studied some non-cognitive symptom. Apathy most frequent (93.8%), followed irritability (81.1%), anxiety (75.0%), dysphoria (71.8%) agitation-aggressiveness (56.2%). least deliria (50.2%), altered nocturnal behaviour aberrant motor activity (37.6%), appetite eating, hallucinations (24.9%), disinhibition (21.8%) euphoria (21.6%). degree symptoms exerted similar independent effect capacity. Only 56.3% treated kind anticholinesterase psychotropic medication.Our census-based confirmed high prevalence rate disease. These data confirm notion that are intrinsic manifestations