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Pick Disease of the Brain : Symptoms

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Tissues in the temporal and frontal lobes of the brain start to shrink over time. Symptoms such as behavior changes, speech difficulty, and impaired thinking occur slowly, but continue to get worse.The early personality changes can help doctors te...
Source:ADAM
Date:February 6, 2008
The molecular cause of Pick disease are a series of mutations linked to chromosomes 17, 9 and 3. One of these mutations is located on the long arm of chromosome 17(17q35) at the locus known to hold the gene for the tau protein, and accounts for be...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Neurological Disorders
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