The Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI) was developed to assess psychopathology in dementia patients. It evaluates 12 neuropsychiatric disturbances common in dementia: delusions, hallucinations, agitation, dysphoria, anxiety, apathy, irritability, euphoria, disinhibition, aberrant motor behavior, night-time behavior disturbances, and appetite and eating abnormalities. The severity and frequency of...

AIM The aim of this study was to elucidate the relation between premorbid personality traits and behavioral and psychological symptoms in dementia (BPSD) in dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients. METHODS Forty-one DLB patients and 98 AD patients were assessed for BPSD using the Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI). Each patient's midlife personality traits were rat...

According to one hypothesis, self-report measures of narcissism help describe a psychological continuum related to self-esteem. Most of the previous support for this idea appeared in studies of undergraduates responding to the Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI; Raskin & Hall, 1981) along with other self-report instruments. In this project, results consistent with the continuum hypothesis ...

1 Neuropsychology Unit, Department of Clinical Psychology, National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore, India 2 Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Clinic, National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore, India 3 Department of Biostatistics, National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore, India 4 Department of Ps...

Outcomes: Primary outcomes: cognitive dysfunction (Severe Impairment Battery (SIB)); activities of daily living (modified 19 item Alzheimer’s disease Co-operative Study-Activities of Daily Living Inventory (ADCS-ADL19)). Secondary outcomes: effects of medication (Clinician’s Interview-Based Impression of Change Plus Caregiver Input (CIBIC-Plus)); frequency and severity of behavioural symptoms (...

Narcissism has received increased attention in the past few decades as a sub-clinical individual diVerence with important everyday consequences, such as self-enhancement in perceptions of one’s own behavior and attributes. The most widespread measure used by non-clinical researchers, the 40-item Narcissistic Personality Inventory or NPI-40, captures a range of diVerent facets of the construct b...

The neurosciences have experienced a spectacular boom during the past decades: new and improved methods in molecularand cell-biology as well as imaging techniques have deepened our understanding of the nervous system and contributed to the understanding of neurological and psychiatric diseases. In addition, a range of novel interventional methods – e.g. from the fields of neuro-surgery, neuro-p...

Patients with dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) have progressive deficits in cognition, parkinsonism, and neuropsychiatric symptoms. Cholinesterase inhibitors have been used to ameliorate cognitive decline and neuropsychiatric symptoms in short-term trials. In this study, patients with DLB were treated with rivastigmine up to 96 weeks. Improvement from baseline was seen in cognitive function as m...

A cross-temporal meta-analysis found that narcissism levels have risen over the generations in 85 samples of American college students who completed the 40-item forced-choice Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI) between 1979 and 2006 (total n=16,475). Mean narcissism scores were significantly correlated with year of data collection when weighted by sample size (beta=.53, p<.001). Since 1982...