Big Five” — to describe personality. These are: openness to experience, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism.Known by the acronym “OCEAN,” psychologists and researchers consider these traits to represent core personality characteristics.
Now, a team of neurologists from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City has investigated the degree to which they may or may not be associated with predementia syndromes.The researchers found that neuroticism increases the risk of nonamnesic mild cognitive impairment by 6%.
Openness has the opposite effect, reducing the risk by 6%.The study appears in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.The study looked at the effect of personality on two syndromes.
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