Patients: 100 people (76% women) aged 65 years or older, living in a residential care facility with probable Alzheimer’s disease (National Institute of Neurological and Communicative diseases and Stroke/Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders Association criteria). Participants had a Clinical Dementia Rating scale (CDR) severity of stage 1 or greater, a Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI) score ...

A population-based prevalence sample of 355 residents of Cache County, Utah, who were diagnosed with dementia, was rated on the Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI). Of the 355 residents, 119 had no neuropsychiatric symptoms at baseline and were, consequently, at risk for incident mental and behavioral disturbances. The NPI was readministered approximately 18 months later to 61 surviving participan...

Two studies examined the interactive effects of different visual imagery perspectives and narcissism on motor performance. In both studies participants completed the Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI-40: Raskin & Hall, 1979) and were assigned to either an internal visual imagery or external visual imagery group. Participants then performed a motor task (dart throwing in Study 1 and golf p...

0092-6566/$ see front matter 2010 Elsevier Inc. A doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2010.05.008 * Corresponding author. E-mail address: [email protected] (S.A. Ros Influential social and personality psychology research indicates that narcissism is related to psychological health. Such inferences are open to question, however, because they nearly all rely on the same selfreport instrument—the Narcissistic ...

This article addresses the question of whether today’s emerging adults are excessively ‘‘narcissistic’’ as claimed by Jean Twenge and others. The answer is a decisive ‘‘no.’’ There is no persuasive evidence that scores on the Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI) have risen among college students in recent decades. In any case, the NPI is a dubious measure of narcissism, and college students...

Little is known about how aerobic exercise affects Alzheimer's disease (AD). The purpose of this pilot study was to test the impact of 6-month cycling on AD symptoms in community-dwelling older adults with mild-to-moderate AD, using a single-group, repeated-measures design (n = 26). AD symptoms were measured with the AD Assessment Scale-Cognitive (ADAS-Cog), Disability in AD (DAD), and Neuropsy...

To investigate the influence of neuropsychiatric manifestations and functional performance on quality of life (QOL) of AD patients and their caregivers/family members. Methods The QOL-AD scale, Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS), Cornell and Beck Scales for Depression, Physical and Instrumental-Self Maintenance scales (AIDL and ADL) and the Neuropsychiatric...

AIM To investigate variables associated with change in quality of life (QOL), measured by QUALID scale and three subscales; tension, sadness and wellbeing, among dementia patients in nursing homes. METHOD A 10 months follow-up study including 198 (female 156, 79%) nursing home patients, mean age 87 (s.d 7.7) years. Scales applied; quality of life in late stage dementia (QUALID) scale and thre...

AIM This study aims to provide a brief questionnaire form of the Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI-Q) in Korean translated from the original NPI-Q that is intended for the evaluation of behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia in routine clinical practice. PATIENTS AND METHODS We developed a Korean version of the NPI-Q (KNPI-Q) and compared subitems with those of the Korean version of ...

Background: To better understand the trends of behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) over the disease progression is important to provide psychoeducation for dementia caregivers. Objective: This study examined the severity and occurrence of BPSD across the various degrees of the disease. Methods: This study was a cross-sectional design. Patients (N = 276) who had dementia fro...