Swallowing may become difficult with patients choking on food. Attention Difficulty sustaining a line of thought or maintaining a conversation for any length of time often occurs. People with Pick s disease are often easily distracted. In the early stages of the disease the person usually remains aware of time and is able to recognise people and faces unlike the usual presentation of Alzheimer s disease. However, failure to recognise faces and using objects wrongly sometimes occurs.
Mathematical skills are usually relatively well preserved.
Pick s Disease may be a rapidly progressive illness, it may last between 2 to 10 years the mean length of illness being 7 years. Who can get Pick s Disease. Anybody can get Pick s disease, and males and females are equally affected. There are no drugs so far which affect the progression of the disease. The drugs that are designed for the treatment of Alzheimer s disease are contraindicated in frontotemporal dementia as they may increase aggression.