If the patient already suffers from a personality disorder, the onset of dementia will serve to enhance or diminish the disorder. Patients in Cluster A have solitary/paranoid personality disorder. These patients tend to have an overwhelming tendency to be improperly suspicious of others. The personality traits of Cluster A were significantly associated with dementia’s symptoms of hallucinations, delusions, anxiety, and depression (Prior et al., 2016). Patients in Cluster C have avoidant/dependent personality disorder. In social situations, they face intense social discomfort and an irrational fear of negative evaluation. These patients also show a high level of timidity towards others and social situations. The Cluster C personality traits were more likely to be associated depression in those who also suffered from dementia (Prior et al., 2016). Overall, the abnormal premorbid personality traits particularly affected the expression of depression and other psychological symptoms in dementia. Dementia or neurocognitive disorder cannot be singularly diagnosed as one disorder, instead often times, it manifests itself in many forms. One subtype is vascular dementia or vascular neurocognitive disorder. Small vessel disease is the cause of subcortical ischemic vascular
If the patient already suffers from a personality disorder, the onset of dementia will serve to enhance or diminish the disorder. Patients in Cluster A have solitary/paranoid personality disorder. These patients tend to have an overwhelming tendency to be improperly suspicious of others. The personality traits of Cluster A were significantly associated with dementia’s symptoms of hallucinations, delusions, anxiety, and depression (Prior et al., 2016). Patients in Cluster C have avoidant/dependent personality disorder. In social situations, they face intense social discomfort and an irrational fear of negative evaluation. These patients also show a high level of timidity towards others and social situations. The Cluster C personality traits were more likely to be associated depression in those who also suffered from dementia (Prior et al., 2016). Overall, the abnormal premorbid personality traits particularly affected the expression of depression and other psychological symptoms in dementia. Dementia or neurocognitive disorder cannot be singularly diagnosed as one disorder, instead often times, it manifests itself in many forms. One subtype is vascular dementia or vascular neurocognitive disorder. Small vessel disease is the cause of subcortical ischemic vascular