Incidence des évènements de vie dans la maladie d'Alzheimer : étude préliminaire sur le programme Abord

Control subjects experienced less difficult events (Chi2 = 5.87; P < 0.05). An accumulation of deleterious life events can impact on psychic economy. Pathogenic factors appear, sick people have more often been placed before the age of 10 (Chi2 = 5.06; P < 0.01), and recognize more psychiatric family history and/or psychic vulnerability (Chi2 = 5.06; P < 0.05). Difficult life events can impact on the subject's ability to grieve, and so the elaboration of losses linked with ageing can become difficult and exceed the psychic ability of the subject, which can be further disrupted by cerebral lesions or pathogenic factors. Hence, the subject could make an unconscious choice of a rescue mental running, which appears in the development of Alzheimer. A protective factor has been found: spiritual practice referring to a form of faith or philosophical adherence (Chi2 = 5.64; P < 0.05).