Personality Patterns in Patients With Myotonic Dystrophy

Abstract

The findings of this study suggest that the personality pattern of patients with DM is related to their disease. Their personality disorders are not attributable to their adjustment to a disabling condition. By contrast, among the patients with DM, the high incidence of avoidant personality, a phenotype poorly represented in the general population, supports the idea that it is the expression of a primary phenomenon related to a genetic mutation.