SCIENCE TIMES, PAGE F1 Alzheimer's Also Erodes Its Victims' Personalities Alzheimer's disease, in addition to stealing away memory, can cause profound changes in personality, both researchers and patients' families have found.
Those numbers do not include the family members who suffer, too, coping not only with the burdens of caregiving but with watching helplessly as the disease erodes its victims' personalities.
They were not intended to recount a person's résumé, but rather to give a snapshot of each victim's personality, of a life lived.
After a faculty appeals committee said she was a victim of "personality discrimination," Dr. Iz sued the university, and won $425,000 in damages.
The traditional method of the caricaturist is to exaggerate those features he considers to be characteristic of his victim's personality and to simplify by leaving out everything that is not relevant for his purpose.
Then, the teenager describes the victim — hair color, personality, age — and what the offender did.
"On the basis of the DSM IV, my point of view is that he is possibly a victim of histrionic personality disorder," the post read.
Péter's performance is not catatonic-deadpan in the cliched, high arthouse style: she can be the harassed refugee, or the pained single mother, or the seducer, and her face seems to change radically in each incarnation, as if in the grip of the classic abuse-victim's multiple personality disorder.
The vulnerable victim is one typology associated with victimised individuals, but there is a growing body of evidence which suggests that victims share the same personality traits as perpetrators, leading to suggestions that perpetrators and victims can hold both roles.
It lies, he said, in a complex interaction between the magnitude of the trauma and victims' own background and personality characteristics (are they normally calm, have they suffered abuse?) as well as factors like social support and cultural beliefs.
