Pick's disease of the brain: A degenerative brain disease involving the frontal and temporal brain lobes resulting primarily in progressive dementia and loss of motor and language functions. It is characterized by the presence of proteins called Pick bodies in damaged nerve cells. More detailed information about the symptoms, causes, and treatments of Pick's disease of the brain is available below.
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Pick's disease of the brain 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 of the brain, or a subtype of Pick's disease of the brain,
affects less than 200,000 people in the US population.
Source - National Institutes of Health (NIH)
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