Subjective memory complaints, personality and prefrontal symptomatology in young adults

• Published in: Revista de neurologiá Vol. 57; no. 7; pp. 289 - 296
• Main Authors: Pedrero-Pérez, Eduardo J, Ruiz-Sánchez de León, José M
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English; Spanish
• Published: Spain 01.10.2013
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Age of Onset; Aged; Attention; Confounding Factors (Epidemiology); Emotions; Executive Function; Exploratory Behavior; Female; Humans; Male; Memory Disorders - epidemiology; Memory Disorders - physiopathology; Memory Disorders - psychology; Middle Aged; Motivation; Personal Autonomy; Personality; Personality Inventory; Prefrontal Cortex - physiopathology; Risk-Taking; Self Concept; Severity of Illness Index; Stress, Psychological - epidemiology; Stress, Psychological - psychology; Substance-Related Disorders - complications; Substance-Related Disorders - psychology; Surveys and Questionnaires; Symptom Assessment; Young Adult - psychology

This work explores two issues related with the appearance of subjective memory complaints in young adults: on the one hand, the possibility of the complaints being a result of attentional and executive deficits and, on the other, whether certain characteristics of the personality favour and modulate...