RGD uses the Human Disease Ontology (DO, https://disease-ontology.org/) for disease curation across species. RGD automatically downloads each new release of the ontology on a monthly basis. Some additional terms which are required for RGD's curation purposes but are not currently covered in the official version of DO have been added. As corresponding terms are added to DO, these custom terms are retired and the DO terms substituted in existing annotations and subsequently used for curation.
A rare form of DEMENTIA that is sometimes familial. Clinical features include APHASIA; APRAXIA; CONFUSION; ANOMIA; memory loss; and personality deterioration. This pattern is consistent with the pathologic findings of circumscribed atrophy of the poles of the FRONTAL LOBE and TEMPORAL LOBE. Neuronal loss is maximal in the HIPPOCAMPUS, entorhinal cortex, and AMYGDALA. Some ballooned cortical neurons contain argentophylic (Pick) bodies. (From Brain Pathol 1998 Apr;8(2):339-54; Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, pp1057-9)
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Circumscribed Lobar Atrophy of the Brain; Dementia with Lobar Atrophy and Neuronal Cytoplasmic Inclusions; Lobar Atrophies (Brain); Lobar Atrophy (Brain); Lobar Atrophy Of Brain; Lobar Atrophy of the Brain; Pick Disease; Pick Disease Of Brain; Pick Disease of the Brain; Picks Disease; Picks disease of brain; circumscribed lobar brain atrophy; dementia in Pick's disease