How do Pick's disease and Alzheimer's differ?
ANSWER
Pick's disease has many of the same causes and symptoms that Alzheimer's does. But there are key differences.
Unlike people with Alzheimer's disease, people with Pick's disease:
- Are diagnosed earlier in life
- Don't have hallucinations or delusions
- Don't tend to get lost in familiar places
- Have a harder time making sense of their words or the words of others
- Have behavior problems early on (behavior problems usually come late in Alzheimer's)
- Don't have as many memory loss problems
From: What Is Pick's Disease? WebMD Medical Reference
Reviewed by Jennifer Robinson on November 15, 2018
SOURCES:
Alzheimer's Association: "Brain Tour," "Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD)."
The Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration: "Pick's Disease."
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke: "Frontotemporal Dementia."
National Organization for Rare Disorders: "Frontotemporal Degeneration."
Medscape: "Pick Disease."
SOURCES:
Alzheimer's Association: "Brain Tour," "Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD)."
The Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration: "Pick's Disease."
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke: "Frontotemporal Dementia."
National Organization for Rare Disorders: "Frontotemporal Degeneration."
Medscape: "Pick Disease."
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