How To Spot Pick's Disease (Frontotemporal Dementia)

Neurological Changes: Emotional Signs

Emotional signs of Pick’s disease include abrupt mood changes, apathy, a lack of empathy or concern for others, rudeness, impatience, aggression, easily distracted with a poor attention span, and individuals are often unaware of these changes in their behavior. Specifically, a patient’s sudden and frequent mood changes will be one of the most noticeable emotional signs of the disorder, as a person with frontotemporal dementia might be sad and depressed one moment, then joyous and euphoric not long after. Many of them have erratic and unpredictable mood changes that occur due to the progressive changes in the brain.

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