What is Pick's Disease?

What is Pick's Disease?

• Pick's Disease: Degenerative dementia condition.
• Pick's Disease: a progressive form of presenile dementia found most often in middle-aged and elderly women and characterized by degeneration of the frontal and temporal lobes with loss of intellectual ability and transitory aphasia.
  Source - WordNet 2.1

Pick's Disease is listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This means that Pick's Disease, or a subtype of Pick's Disease, affects less than 200,000 people in the US population.
Source - National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Name and Aliases of Pick's Disease

Main name of condition: Pick's Disease

Arnold Pick's syndrome, aphasia-agnosia-apraxia syndrome

Pick's disease
Source - WordNet 2.1

Pick disease of the brain, Dementia with lobar atrophy and neuronal cytoplasmic inclusions, Lobar atrophy of the brain
Source - Office of Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Types of Pick's Disease:

Parent types of Pick's Disease: Dementia, Brain conditions

Organs Affected by Pick's Disease:

mental, brain

Who gets Pick's Disease?

Patient Profile for Pick's Disease: Typically 40-60, but can occur 20-80
Profile for Pick's Disease: Although the disease usually affects individuals between the ages of 40 and 60, the age of onset may range from 20 to 80. (Source: excerpt from NINDS Pick's Disease Information Page: NINDS)

How serious is Pick's Disease?

Prognosis of Pick's Disease: Poor. Deterioration. Often death within 2-10 years.
Prognosis of Pick's Disease: The course of Pick's disease is an inevitable progressive deterioration. The length of progression varies, ranging from less than 2 years in some to more than 10 years in others. Death is usually caused by infection. (Source: excerpt from NINDS Pick's Disease Information Page: NINDS)

What causes Pick's Disease?

Causes of Pick's Disease: The cause of the disease is unknown. (Source: excerpt from NINDS Pick's Disease Information Page: NINDS)
Causes of Pick's Disease: see causes of Pick's Disease

How is it treated?

Treatments for Pick's Disease: see treatments for Pick's Disease
Research for Pick's Disease: see research for Pick's Disease