Allegra Kawles, Rachel Keszycki, Grace Minogue, Antonia Zouridakis, Ivan Ayala, Nathan Gill, Alyssa Macomber, Vivienne Lubbat, Christina Coventry, Emily Rogalski, Sandra Weintraub, Qinwen Mao, Margaret E Flanagan, Hui Zhang, Rudolph Castellani, Eileen H Bigio, M-Marsel Mesulam, Changiz Geula, Tamar Gefen
Pick's disease (PiD) is a subtype of the tauopathy form of frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD-tau) characterized by intraneuronal 3R-tau inclusions. PiD can underly various dementia syndromes, including primary progressive aphasia (PPA), characterized by an isolated and progressive impairment of language and left-predominant atrophy, and behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD), characterized by progressive dysfunction in personality and bilateral frontotemporal atrophy. In this study, we investigated the neocortical and hippocampal distributions of Pick bodies in bvFTD and PPA to establish clinicopathologic concordance between PiD and the salience of the aphasic versus behavioral phenotype...
February 22, 2024: Acta Neuropathologica Communications