The impact of cognitive and behavioral symptoms on ALS patients and their caregivers

Caga, Jashelle, Hsieh, Sharpley, Lillo, Patricia, Dudley, Kaitlin and Mioshi, Eneida (2019) The impact of cognitive and behavioral symptoms on ALS patients and their caregivers. Frontiers in Neurology, 10. ISSN 1664-2295

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Abstract

Previously thought to be a pure motor disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is now established as multisystem neurodegenerative disorder that lies on a continuum with frontotemporal dementia (FTD). Cognitive and behavioral symptoms primarily extend to executive function, personality, social conduct, and emotion processing. The assessment and management of cognitive and behavioral symptoms is complicated as they must be differentiated from psychological responses to a terminal diagnosis and progressive physical impairment. This is made more difficult by the limited number of studies investigating how these symptoms specifically affect patients and caregivers well-being. The current review focuses on the impact of cognitive and behavioral symptoms on patient and caregiver well-being and their implications for future research and interventions in ALS. This is an important area of research that could form the basis for more tailored, and potentially more successful, non-pharmacological interventions to improve psychological well-being among patients with ALS and their caregivers.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	sdg 3 - good health and well-being ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/good_health_and_well_being
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > School of Health Sciences
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Dementia & Complexity in Later Life Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Centres > Lifespan Health
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	03 Apr 2019 10:30
Last Modified:	19 Oct 2023 02:25
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/70457
DOI:	10.3389/fneur.2019.00192

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