Personality change
Personality change: Introduction
Further information about Personality change is below, or review more specific
information about these types of Personality change:
Psychotic Behaviour
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Personality change: Change in a person's behavior and personality.
See free access online books about Personality change below.
See detailed information below for a list of 222
causes of Personality change, including diseases and drug side effect causes.
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Causes of Personality change:
The following medical conditions are some of the possible
causes of Personality change.
There are likely to be other possible causes, so ask your doctor
about your symptoms.
- Mood disorders
- Brain disorders
- Toxins affecting the brain:
- Infections affecting the brain:
- Systemic medical disorders
- Tumor of frontal lobe of brain
- Cancer of frontal lobe of brain
- Abscess of frontal lobe of brain (see Abscess)
- Bleeding into frontal lobe of brain
- more causes...»
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causes of Personality change
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Causes of Types of Personality change:
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Personality change: Symptom Checker
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Causes of General Symptom Types
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Causes of Similar Symptoms to Personality change
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Diagnostic Guides for Personality change
Medical Books Excerpts
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Medical Books Excerpts
- ANXIETY
- "Algorithmic Diagnosis of Symptoms and Signs" (2003)
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- Anxiety
- "In a Page: Signs and Symptoms" (2004)
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- Agitation
- "Handbook of Signs & Symptoms (Third Edition)" (2006)
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- Anxiety
- "Handbook of Signs & Symptoms (Third Edition)" (2006)
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- Agitation
- "Professional Guide to Signs & Symptoms (Fifth Edition)" (2006)
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- Anxiety
- "Professional Guide to Signs & Symptoms (Fifth Edition)" (2006)
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- Anxiety
- "The 10-Minute Diagnosis Manual: Symptoms and Signs in the Time-Limited Encounter" (2000)
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- Anxiety
- "Field Guide to Bedside Diagnosis" (2007)
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- Agitation
- "Signs & Symptoms: A 2-in-1 Reference for Nurses" (2007)
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- Anxiety
- "Signs & Symptoms: A 2-in-1 Reference for Nurses" (2007)
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- Agitation
- "Nursing: Interpreting Signs and Symptoms" (2007)
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- Anxiety
- "Nursing: Interpreting Signs and Symptoms" (2007)
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Personality change: Self Assessment Tools
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Personality change: Undiagnosed Conditions
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Misdiagnosis and Personality change
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a patient to show mental decline to dementia.
Whereas this can, of course, occur due to various medical conditions,
such as a stroke or ...read more »
ADHD under-diagnosed in adults: Although the over-diagnoses of ADHD
in children is a well-known controversy, the reverse side related to adults.
Some adults can remain undiagnosed, and indeed the condition has usually been
overlooked throughout childhood.
There are as...read more »
Bipolar disorder misdiagosed as various conditions by primary physicians: Bipolar disorder (manic-depressive disorder)
often fails to be diagnosed correctly by primary care physicians.
Many patients with bipolar seek help from their physician, rather...read more »
Eating disorders under-diagnosed in men: The typical patient with
an eating disorder is female.
The result is that men with eating disorders often fail to be diagnosed or...read more »
Depression undiagnosed in teenagers: Serious bouts of depression can be
undiagnosed in teenagers.
The "normal" moodiness of teenagers can cause severe medical depression
to be overlooked.
See misdiagnosis of depression or symptoms of depression....read more »
Undiagnosed anxiety disorders related to depression: Patients with depression (see symptoms of depression)
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Personality change: Related Rare Diseases
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Diagnostic tests for Personality change:
Various tests are used in the diagnosis of Personality change. Some of these are listed below :
- Mental state examination - including appearance, behavior, rate and continuity of speech, mood, affect, thought content, evidence of any hallucinations or abnormal beliefs, orientation to time, place and person, attention and concentration, short-term memory, insight and judgement - Can help diagnose depression, anxiety and psychosis.
- Mini-mental state examination - if dementia is suspected test memory and cognitive function.
- Physical examination
- Signs of delirium? - examine for signs that personality change may be due to delirium rather than mental illness or dementia ( e.g. temperature, neck stiffness may suggest meningitis, encephalitis or subarachnoid hemorrhage; neurological examination to look for focal neurological signs and papilledema may suggest stroke, brain cancer or traumatic brain injury).
- If suspect multi-infarct dementia, examine for signs of vascular pathology e.g. high blood pressure, signs of previous strokes
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diagnostic tests for Personality change
Diagnosis Checklist: Questions your doctor may ask (and why!)
During a consultation, your doctor will use various techniques in their assessment of Personality change.
Your doctor may ask several questions when assessing
your condition. It is important to remember that your consultation is a two-way process and any extra information
you can share with your doctor about your symptoms may help them with their diagnosis.
Some of the questions your doctor may ask are listed below:
- How long has there been a personality change? - to determine if acute or chronic. If onset is rapid and symptoms have been present for hours to weeks must consider delirium as possible cause of personality change. Delirium is an acute confusional state due to many causes e.g. infection, drug intoxication, alcohol withdrawal, liver failure, kidney failure, hypoxia, low blood sugar, stroke, heart attack or head injury. If the onset is slow and insidious and symptoms have been present for months to years a diagnosis of dementia, psychiatric illness or intellectual disability may be more likely.
- What are the features of the personality change? - e.g. impulsivity, hyperactivity, aggression, paranoia, negativity, moody, irritability.
- Do you feel that you are coping well?
- Has anything changed in your life?
- What are your stressors at the moment? - Questions specifically about relationship, family, children, social support, occupation, general physical health and financial stresses. Significant stressors may cause personality change or moodiness or may increase the risk of depression and insomnia.
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Diagnosis Checklist: Associated symptoms your doctor may ask about (and why!)
Sometimes, other symptoms may be present and may help your doctor analyse
your condition.
The symptoms your doctor may ask about (in association with Personality change) may include:
- Fever? - may suggest any infection that may cause delirium e.g. urinary tract infection, viral gastroenteritis, viral upper respiratory tract infection, ear infection, meningitis, encephalitis.
- Memory impairment? - Dementia causes impaired memory, impaired judgement and thinking, impaired verbal fluency and impaired ability to perform complex tasks. Personality may change, impulse control may be lost and personal care deteriorates. People with dementia may also have psychiatric symptoms such as delusions, paranoid ideas, hallucinations, mood disturbance and behavioral disturbance.
- Headache? - may suggest brain cancer, acute stroke, meningitis or encephalitis. Headache may also occur among the range of physical symptoms experienced with depression and tend to mask the diagnosis of depression.
- Symptoms of depression? - e.g. depressed mood, crying spells, irritability, anhedonia (loss of interest or pleasure), increase or decrease in appetite (usually decreased), weight loss or gain, insomnia or increased sleeping (usually early morning waking), fatigue, loss of energy, feelings of worthlessness, feelings of excessive guilt, poor concentration, difficulty making decisions, low libido, thoughts of death or suicide attempt.
- Symptoms of Manic-depression? - e.g. episodes of depression (often psychotic in intensity) and at other times episodes of psychotic excitement (mania or hypomania). Symptoms of psychotic excitement may include elevation of mood, increased activity, grandiose ideas, irritability, disinhibition (which affects social, sexual and financial behavior), rapid speech and racing thought, delusions (persecutory or grandiose) and sometimes hallucinations.
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Home Diagnostic Testing and Personality change
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Medications or substances causing Personality change:
The following drugs, medications, substances or toxins are some of the possible
causes of Personality change as a symptom.
Always advise your doctor of any medications or treatments you are using,
including prescription, over-the-counter, supplements, herbal or alternative treatments.
- Chloroquine Phosphate
- Aralen Phosphate
- Chloroquine and Primaquine
- Aralen Phosphate with Primaquine Phosphate
- Mysoline
- Olanzapine
- more causes...»
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medications causing Personality change
Drug interactions causing Personality change:
When combined, certain drugs, medications, substances or toxins may react
causing Personality change as a symptom.
Always advise your doctor of any medications or treatments you are using,
including prescription, over-the-counter, supplements, herbal or alternative treatments.
- Bumex (Bumetanide) and Lanoxin (Digoxin) interaction
- Diachlor (Chlorothiazide) and Lanoxin (Digoxin) interaction
- Diuril (Chlorothiazide) and Lanoxin (Digoxin) interaction
- Diucardin (Hydroflumethiazide) and Lanoxin (Digoxin) interaction
- Saluron (Hydroflumethiazide) and Lanoxin (Digoxin) interaction
- Edecrin (Ethacrynic Acid) and Lanoxin (Digoxin) interaction
- Enduron (Methyclothiazide) and Lanoxin (Digoxin) interaction
- more interactions...»
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drug interactions causing Personality change
Organs affected by Personality change:
The list of organs typically affected by Personality change may include, but is not limited to:
Detailed list of causes of Personality change
The list below shows some of the causes of Personality change mentioned in various sources:
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causes of Personality change
How Common are these Causes of Personality change?
This information refers to the general prevalence and incidence of these diseases,
not to how likely they are to be the actual cause of Personality change.
Of the 222
causes of Personality change that
we have listed, we have the following prevalence/incidence information:
- 6
causes are "very common" diseases
- 10
causes are "common" diseases
- 5
causes are "uncommon" diseases
- 2
causes are "rare" diseases
- 10
causes are "very rare" diseases
- 207
causes have no prevalence information.
See the analysis of the prevalence of 222
causes of Personality change
Conditions listing symptoms: Personality change:
The following list of conditions
have 'Personality change' or similar
listed as a symptom in our database.
This computer-generated list may be inaccurate or incomplete.
Always seek prompt professional medical advice about the cause
of any symptom.
A
Achromatopsia
... personality changesACTH Deficiency
... psychosisAddison's Disease
... reduced tolerance to emotional stressAdhesive abuse
... personality changesAdhesive addiction
... personality changesAdrenal adenoma, familial
... personality changesAdrenal Cancer
... personality changesAdrenal Cortex Diseases
... reduced tolerance to emotional stressAdrenal Cortex Neoplasms
... personality changesAdrenal gland hyperfunction
... personality changesAdrenal gland hypofunction
... reduced tolerance to emotional stressAdrenal incidentaloma
... personality changesAdrenocortical carcinoma
... personality changesAdverse reaction to chemical - 1-Propanol
... personality changesAerosol abuse
... personality changesAerosol addiction
... personality changesAfrican Sleeping sickness
... personality changesAguecheek disease
... personality changesAlzheimer disease 10
... personality changes, Personality disintegrationAlzheimer disease 12
... personality changes, Personality disintegrationAlzheimer disease 13
... personality changes, Personality disintegrationAlzheimer disease 14
... personality changes, Personality disintegrationAlzheimer disease 15
... personality changes, Personality disintegrationAlzheimer disease 16
... Personality disintegrationAlzheimer disease 2, late-onset
... Personality disintegrationAlzheimer disease 3, (early-onset Alzheimer disease)
... Personality disintegrationAlzheimer disease 5
... personality changes, Personality disintegrationAlzheimer disease 6
... personality changes, Personality disintegrationAlzheimer disease 7
... personality changes, Personality disintegrationAlzheimer disease 8
... personality changes, Personality disintegrationAlzheimer disease 9
... personality changes, Personality disintegrationAlzheimer disease type 1
... personality changesAlzheimer disease type 2
... personality changesAlzheimer disease type 4
... personality changesAlzheimer disease, early-onset, with cerebral amyloid angiopathy
... Personality disintegrationAlzheimer disease, familial
... personality changesAlzheimer disease, familial, 1
... personality changes, Personality disintegrationAlzheimer disease, familial, 11
... Personality disintegrationAlzheimer disease, familial, 3, with spastic paraparesis and apraxia
... Personality disintegrationAlzheimer disease, familial, 3, with spastic paraparesis and unusual plaques
... Personality disintegrationAlzheimer disease, familial, 4
... Personality disintegrationAlzheimer disease, familial, type 3
... personality changesAlzheimer's Disease
... personality disintegrationAlzheimer's disease without Neurofibrillary tangles
... personality changesAmphetamine withdrawal
... psychosisAstrocytoma
... personality changeAutoimmune limbic encephalitis
... personality changeB
Batten Disease
... personality changesBiliary cirrhosis
... personality changesBing-Neel syndrome
... personality changesBipolar disorder
... psychosisBrain cancer
... personality changesBrain Concussion
... personality changesBrain tumor, adult
... personality changesBristowe's syndrome
... personality changesC
Calcification of basal ganglia with or without hypocalcemia
... psychosis, personality changesCathinone poisoning
... psychosisCentral nervous system lymphoma, primary
... personality changesCentral nervous system oxygen toxicity
... personality changesCentral nervous system protozoal infections
... personality changesCerebral astrocytoma, adult
... personality changesCerebral sarcoma
... personality changesCerebral ventricle neoplasm
... personality changesCerebrovascular accident
... personality changeCeroid lipofuscinosis, neuronal 4
... personality changeChemical poisoning - Azinphos-methyl
... personality changesChemical poisoning - Bromethalin
... personality changesChemical poisoning - Carbon Disulfide
... psychosisChemical poisoning - Lysergic Acid Diethylamide
... psychosisChemical poisoning - Manganese
... psychosisChoreoacanthocytosis amyotrophic
... psychosisCirrhosis of the liver
... personality changesClaviceps purpurea poisoning
... psychosisCreutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
... personality changesCryptococcal Meningitis
... personality changesCrystal meth addiction
... psychosis, personality changesD
Dementia
... personality changesDialysis encephalopathy syndrome
... personality changesDissociative disorder
... Personality changeDissociative Identity Disorder
... personality changeDobriner syndrome
... psychosisDown's Syndrome associated Alzheimer's disease
... Personality disintegrationE
Early-onset Alzheimer's
... Personality disintegrationEast African Trypanosomiasis
... personality changesEcstasy withdrawal
... psychosisEncephalitis
... personality changesEpendymoma
... personality changesF
Fabry's Disease
... personality changeFamilial Forms of Alzheimer's Disease
... Personality disintegrationFronto-temporal dementia and Parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17 (FTDP-17)
... personality changesFrontotemporal dementia, ubiquitin-positive
... personality changesFunctioning pancreatic endocrine tumor
... personality changesG
Ganglioglioma
... personality changesGlioblastoma
... personality changeGlioma
... personality changesGliomatosis cerebri
... personality changesGliosarcoma
... personality changesGräsbeck-Imerslund disease
... personality changesH
Hawaiian Baby Woodrose poisoning
... psychosisHerbal Agent overdose - Wormwood
... psychosisHeroin dependence
... personality changesHerpes simplex encephalitis
... personality changesHuntington's Disease
... personality changesHydrocephalus
... personality changesHydrocephalus - costovertebral dysplasia - Sprengel anomaly
... psychosisHydrocephalus - Skeletal Anomalies - Mental Disturbance
... psychosisHyperadrenalism
... personality changesHyperoxia
... personality changesHyperparathyroidism, primary
... personality changesHypoadrenalism
... reduced tolerance to emotional stressHypoadrenocorticism - hypoparathyroidism - moniliasis
... reduced tolerance to emotional stressI
Imerslünd-Grasbeck Syndrome
... personality changesInfectious meningitis
... personality changesInhalant abuse
... personality changesInhalant addiction
... personality changesInsulinoma
... personality changesJ
Juvenile pilocytic astrocytoma
... personality changesK
Korsakoff's psychosis
... personality changesL
Late-onset Alzheimer's
... Personality disintegrationLead poisoning
... personality changesLimbic encephalitis
... personality changeLupus
... personality changesM
Malignant astrocytoma
... personality changesMarijuana abuse
... psychosisMarijuana addiction
... psychosis, personality changesMedulloblastoma
... personality changesMegaloblastic Anemia 1
... personality changesMelanoma - astrocytoma syndrome
... personality changesMeningioma
... personality changesMental retardation psychosis macroorchidism
... psychosisMental retardation X-linked - psychosis - macroorchidism
... psychosisMescal poisoning
... psychosisMetastatic insulinoma
... personality changesMetastatic nervous system cancer
... Personality changesMethylmalonic acidemia, synthesis defect of AdoCbl and MeCbl
... psychosisMN1
... personality changesMood disorders
... Personality ChangeN
Narcissistic Personality Disorder
... Personality changeNeuroectodermal tumor, primitive
... personality changesNeurosyphilis
... personality changeNeurosyphilis - general paresis
... personality changesNorrie syndrome
... psychosisNutritional deficiency
... PsychosisNymphomania
... personality changeNyssen-Van Bogaert syndrome
... personality changesO
Opioid addiction
... personality changesOpium addiction
... personality changesOrganic personality syndrome
... personality changesOxycontin addiction
... personality changesP
Pain killer addiction
... personality changesParaneoplastic limbic encephalitis
... personality changePernicious anemia
... personality changesPolyarteritis nodosa
... personality changePorphyria
... personality changesPrescribed medication addiction
... personality changesPrimary Hyperaldosteronism
... personality changesPrion disease
... personality changesPrion diseases
... personality changesPsychosis
... personality changesPsychotic disorders
... psychosisR
Radiation induced meningioma
... personality changesReye's Syndrome
... personality changesRight parietal lobe syndrome related Alzheimer's disease
... Personality disintegrationS
Schilder's Disease
... personality changesSchizoaffective disorder
... PsychosisSecondary Biliary Cirrhosis
... personality changesSelective Vitamin B12 malabsorption with Proteinuria
... personality changesSjögren syndrome, secondary
... psychosisSleeping pill addiction
... personality changesSolvent abuse
... personality changesSolvent addiction
... personality changesSpongiform encephalopathy
... personality changesSt. Anthony's fire
... psychosisT
Toxic mushrooms - Anticholinergic
... psychosisToxic mushrooms - Psychedelic
... psychosisTranquilizer addiction
... personality changesTransthyretin amyloidosis
... psychosisTraumatic Brain Injury
... personality changesV
Vitamin B12 Deficiency
... psychosisW
Waaler Aarskog syndrome
... psychosisWernicke-Korsakoff syndrome
... personality changesWest African Trypanosomiasis
... personality changesWilson's Disease
... psychosis, abrupt personality change, personality changesY
Young McKeever Squier syndrome
... Personality change
Conditions listing complications: Personality change:
The following list of conditions
have 'Personality change' or similar
listed as a complication in our database.
The distinction between a symptom and complication is not always clear,
and conditions mentioning this symptom as a complication may also be relevant.
This computer-generated list may be inaccurate or incomplete.
Always seek prompt professional medical advice about the cause
of any symptom.
A
Alzheimer's Disease
... personality disintegrationAmphetamine abuse
... psychosisAnoxia
... personality regressionAsperger syndrome
... psychosisAutism
... psychosisB
Bipolar disorder
... psychosisC
Cirrhosis of the liver
... personality changesCocaine addiction
... psychosisCrack addiction
... psychosisD
Dementia
... personality problemsE
Ecstasy addiction
... psychosisM
Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
... Personality changeN
Narcotic addiction
... psychosis
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Causes of Personality change Based on Risk Factors
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Doctors and specialists: Who should I consult about Personality change?
Depending on the seriousness of the onset of Personality change, you may want to consult one of the following medical professionals.
Important:In extreme cases, always seek advice from emergency services :
Classifications of Personality change:
Subtypes of Personality change:
Psychotic Behaviour (35 causes)
Medical Conditions associated with Personality change:
Personality symptoms (3427 causes), Behavioral symptoms (3957 causes)
Symptoms related to Personality change:
Depression (352 causes), Anxiety (701 causes), Personality symptoms (3427 causes), Moodiness (111 causes), Aggression (122 causes), Irritability (598 causes), Emotional (1141 causes), Dramatic, Aggressive (122 causes), Lack of remorse, Repeated lying, Impulsive (29 causes), Paranoia (75 causes), Chronic feelings of emptiness, Instability, ideas of reference, odd beliefs, reckless disregard
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