Conditions / Mental health

Pick's disease

info · Mental health · ICD-10: G31.01

A frontotemporal dementia that is characterized by a spectrum of neuropsychiatric symptoms ranging from those that affect the patient's personality to those that cause a decline in cognitive function.

Signs and symptoms

  • Primitive reflex
  • Echolalia
  • Language impairment
  • Frontotemporal dementia
  • Emotional dearth
  • Perseverative thought
  • Polyphagia
  • Gliosis
  • Irritability
  • Inappropriate laughter

Also known as: Dementia in Pick's disease; LOBAR ATROPHY OF BRAIN; PICK DISEASE OF BRAIN; Pick disease