Semantic Dementia
Health Encyclopedia: Pick's Disease
Primary progressive aphasia; Aphasia - primary progressive; Semantic dementia; Dementia - semantic; Frontotemporal dementia; Arnold Pick's disease
Prevention
There is no known prevention for this rare disorder.
References
Moore DP, Jefferson JW. Handbook of Medical Psychiatry. 2nd ed. St. Louis, MO: Mosby; 2004.
Pierce JM. Pick's disease. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2003 Feb;74(2):169.
Grossman M. Frontotemporal dementia:a review. J Intl Neuro...
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