With Pick's disease, nerve cells in the frontal and temporal lobes start to atrophy (die), leading to symptoms of dementia that can be hard to distinguish from Alzheimer's disease. Pick's disease ...

A normal MRI brain, showing no atrophy, depicts the three areas of interest in the brain's medial temporal lobe: hippocampus (outlined in red); entorhinal cortex (blue) and perirhinal cortex (green).

FTLD patients with professions ranked highly for verbal skills, such as chief executive, showed atrophy in right temporal lobe. In those with professions ranked lower for verbal skills ...