Most patients with dementia have some behavioural and psychological symptoms. While aggression and agitation are easily recognised, symptoms such as apathy may be overlooked. Behavioural and psychological symptoms should be managed without drugs whenever possible. Although there is little evidence to support their use, antipsychotic drugs are often prescribed to people with dementia. Before pre...

BACKGROUND Apathy and depression are associated with poor cognition in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). However, the cognitive signature of each syndrome is not well understood. The cognitive consequences of having apathy or depression, versus apathy and depression, are also unclear. OBJECTIVE This study investigated the unique and combined effects of apathy and depression on cognition...

BACKGROUND Apathy is a common feature of Huntington’s disease (HD), even from early disease. However, patients are believed to lack insight into their own apathy and therefore clinicians and/or companions are relied upon to estimate the extent of a patient’s apathy. In addition, the evolution of apathy over time in HD has not been unequivocally established. OBJECTIVEs: The purpose of this study...

In this study, I analyze Maleficent (2014), the first Disney film to place a previously antagonist character into protagonist in new film. thesis, found changes personality of from good evil and back that caused her experience anxieties. Therefore, use Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory three fundamental elements human psyche (id, ego, superego), anxiety defense mechanisms. Based on my analy...

A novel "field" study recently published in Aggressive Behavior found that individual differences in baseline testosterone concentrations were positively correlated with endorsement of political aggression and that baseline cortisol concentrations were negatively correlated with self-reported aggression among Palestinian boys living in Gaza. Here, we discuss recent evidence indicating that test...

Arizona State University! !! Introduction! On October 19th, 2015, Canadian citizens will head to the polls in their country’s 42nd general election. The vote offers the choice between the existing right wing government (Stephen Harper’s Conservatives), three largely left-of-center alternatives (the New Democrats, Liberals, and Greens), a regional party (the Bloc Québécois), and several independ...

Apathy has traditionally been conceptualised as part of depression. The appropriateness of this conceptualisation has now been questioned, with the realization that apathy constitutes a distinct neuropsychiatric condition, with separate rehabilitation and patient-care implications to depression. Research on the relationship between apathy and depression has, however, produced mixed results. One...