Today I did a little more research and found a few articles that I liked better than the ones I found yesterday. One of the new ones I found is about patients with dementia and how their memory loss has affected the type of personality they have. Dementias main effect is on the brain and its memory functions. People with dementia have a hard time remembering simple things such as the day of the week or how to get back from the store. It could also get as severe as the person not remembering a family member or friend. This article talks about how they went about trying to see if there was a connection between dementia and personality. The main thing they did was they had caretakers of patients with dementia take a questionnaire about how the patients personality was before they had dementia and then another about how their personality was after they got dementia. The results showed that there was a difference in personality traits for the patients. The main changes in personality traits where in their reliance on others, liking company, irritability, unhappiness, energy, enthusiasm, contact with reality and kindness. They also performed another control test on people’s personalities before and after retirement. The results of this showed that there wasn’t much change the subject’s personality at all. This relates to my topic because this is what I’m trying to argue. It seems clear from this study at least that memory does affect your personality.
M. Trabucchi, et al. "Personality changes in Alzheimer's disease." Aging & Mental Health 11.5 (2007): 526-531. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 22 Jan. 2011.
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