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Pick Disease of the Brain : Symptoms

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The disease can get worse slowly. 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 pers...
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 b...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Neurological Disorders
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