Premorbid Personality Profile of Patients With Cognitive and Behavioral Disorders

Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot listed
Trial typeObservational
Biological sexAll
Age18+
SponsorNantes University Hospital

About this trial

Damages in frontal area present in neurodegenerative disease (frontotemporal degeneration, frontal variant of Alzheimer disease) and in psychiatric disease (bipolar disorder) can affect behavior and cognition including social cognition. Symptoms vary both quantitatively and qualitatively from disease to another and from person to person. It cannot be completely excluded that in some cases, factors of susceptibility such as premorbid personality traits lead to frontal fragility.

The study will assess the relationship between premorbid profile using NEO-PI 3 inventory and cognitive and behavioral/psychobehavioral manifestations in patients with behavioral variant of frontotemporal disorder (bvFTD), phenocopy frontotemporal dementia (phFTD), frontal variant of Alzheimer disease, bipolar disorder characterized with frontal damages.

Eligibility criteria

Qualifiers

Patients with behavioral variant of frontotemporal disorder (bvFTD) according to Rascovsky criteria (2011) or patients with phénocopy frontotemporal dementia (phFTD) who fulfill criteria for possible bvFTD and have no imaging abnormalities or patients with frontal variant of Alzheimer disease according to Ossenkopele criteria (2022), or patient with bipolar disorder according to CIM 10 criteria

Score for Mini-mental state examination ≥ 18

Patient with caregiver who has who has known him/her in the 10 years preceding the disease onset.

Patient and caregiver consents (no opposition)

Disqualifiers

Patient with no caregiver

Pregnant or breast feeding women

Trial design

Treatments tested in this trial

  • Submission of the NEO-PI-3 questionnaire
  • Submission of the Interpersonal Reactivity Index questionnaire (IRI)

Treatment groups

120 Participants
are divided into 4 treatment groups

Sponsors and collaborators