Abstract
At the core of the new paradigm of T2D is the concept that behavioral mechanisms are at the root of and are the drivers of all the endocrine, metabolic, immunological, and neurological changes observed in T2D and its complications. A simple expectation that arises from this concept is that there should be detectable behavioral changes accompanying or actually preceding diabetes. Also one should be able to observe behavioral differences between diabetics and age-matched nondiabetic controls. This has not been looked at seriously because hardly anyone suspected so. The other reason is that the behavior of diabetics is always perceived as normal, and there is no doubt that is it generally “normal” in the sense that it is not what psychiatry calls a disorder. Psychiatry looks at behavioral disorders and is generally not interested in behavioral differences within the “normal and healthy” range of behaviors. Psychologists and ethologists, on the other hand, who are interested in “normal” behavior do not study diabetes. As a result whether diabetics differ in any types of behaviors or personality within the normal range of behaviors was a question almost never addressed so far. The word diabetic personality has occasionally been used and debated [1–3], but this literature does not talk about the kind of personality traits the new paradigm expects. But differences do exist and I will cite one example.
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- Metabolic Syndrome
- Erectile Dysfunction
- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
- Physical Aggression
- Behavioral Difference
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Watve, M. (2012). Behavioral Deficiencies and Behavioral Supplementation. In: Doves, Diplomats, and Diabetes. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4409-1_14
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