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An image depicting Pick bodies in the brain, courtesy of Dennis Dickson, M.D.
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Advancing the study of Pick’s disease, rare form of early-onset dementia

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Pick's disease, a neurodegenerative disease of unknown genetic origin, is a rare type of frontotemporal dementia that affects people under the age[...]

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