personality changes
Altered character traits
Personality changes are shifts in someone's characteristic patterns of thinking, feeling, or behaving.
The term typically signals concern—changes brought on by illness, brain injury, medication, trauma, or aging: The tumor caused dramatic personality changes.
A doctor asking about personality changes wants to know if someone has become uncharacteristically irritable, withdrawn, impulsive, or apathetic.
The phrase implies something has gone wrong rather than natural growth or maturation.
- temperamentInborn behavioral nature
- alteredChanged from before
- unrecognizableCannot be identified
- out of characterContrary to typical behavior
- psychiatricOf mental health treatment
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- addiction signscravings, dependence, withdrawal, compulsion, relapse
- brain damagebrain lesions, brain swelling, cognitive decline, cognitive deficits, dementia
- cognitive disordersdementia, Alzheimer's, Alzheimer's disease, cognitive impairment, vascular dementia
- Brain InjuriesTBI, concussion, brain trauma, brain damage, traumatic brain injury
- lifespanlifetime, life expectancy, lifespan, infancy, lifecycle
- Brain Disordersdementia, Alzheimer's, epilepsy, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's disease
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