"Who am I?": Weakened sense of the self in patients with behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia.

ABSTRACT: While research has shown a distrusted sense of the self in patients with behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD), little is known about how patients describe their self-image. We used the "Who am I?" task to invite patients with bvFTD and control participants to produce statements beginning with "I am…." We distinguished between statements related to physical, social, and psychological self. Analyses showed fewer statements related to physical, social, and psychological self in the patients with bvFTD than in control participants. Another result was the proportionally similar production of statements describing physical, social, and psychological self in both patients with bvFTD and control participants. Finally, the total production of "Who am I?" statements was positively corr

SUBMITTER: El Haj M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10082281 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature