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pick's dis·ease
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Pick's diseasenoun
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
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pick's disease
Pick's disease is a rare neurodegenerative disease that causes progressive and irreversible dementia. It is characterized by a gradual decline in behavior, personality, and language due to shrinking of the frontal and temporal anterior lobes of the brain. Named after Arnold Pick, who discovered it in 1892, the disease also involves the formation of abnormal structures, known as Pick bodies, in nerve cells. It is one type of dementia under the umbrella of frontotemporal dementia. The early onset of the disease usually appears between the ages of 40 and 60.
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Pick's disease
Pick's disease, a type of Frontotemporal Dementia, is a rare neurodegenerative disease that causes progressive destruction of nerve cells in the brain. Symptoms include dementia and loss of language. While some of the symptoms can initially be alleviated, the disease progresses and patients often die within two to ten years. A defining characteristic of the disease is build-up of tau proteins in neurons, accumulating into silver-staining, spherical aggregations known as "Pick bodies". While the term Pick's disease was once used to represent a class of clinical syndromes with symptoms attributable to frontal and temporal lobe dysfunction, it is now used among professionals to mean a specific pathology that is one of the causes of frontotemporal lobar degeneration. Some people use the term Pick's disease to mean the more general clinical syndrome of frontotemporal lobar degeneration, but this has previously led to confusion among professionals and patients and so its use should be restricted to the specific pathological subtype described below. It is also known as Pick disease and PiD.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Pick's disease in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Pick's disease in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
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