Pick's disease

English Etymology Named after Arnold Pick, psychiatry professor who first discovered and described the disease in 1892. Noun - A rare neurodegenerative disease that causes progressive destruction of nerve cells in the brain. Symptoms include aphasia and dementia. en 2024 Tommy Orange Wandering Stars Harvill Secker 127 Pick’s disease was like dementia for middle-aged people. Toward the end she couldn’t even speak or seem to understand anything anyone said to her. en eponyms