PNIP scientists analyzed a rare peak disease – Russia’s violent dementia 12, 2025, 13:30

Pick disease is a serious neurodegenerative disease in which brain structures are destroyed. The disease is dangerous in terms of affecting people under 60 years of age. There is no official data in Russia – PIC disease is rarely recorded in the statistical collections of the Russian Ministry of Health. Pick is difficult due to the diagnosis of the disease, other dementia types and lack of information and the similarity of early symptoms.

For the correct diagnosis and examination of the disease, an autopsy is performed, reveals a characteristic feature – damage the front and temporal shares of the brain. In the last 25 years, the morphological studies of the dementia of the summit have not been carried out, that is, there was no case of diagnosis about the truth of death.

Pik is known to be rare, start in the working age and have serious clinical symptoms that affect the patient’s personality and behavior. The memories of the patient are preserved for a while, but then aggression develops rapidly, reduces the feeling of embarrassment and a person loses their adequacy. The disease progresses at high speed and leads to death.

For the first time in Russia, Perm scientists diagnosed peak disease in a 55 -year -old patient. The woman had no mental disorders, but showed signs of intelligence, aggression, loss of hygiene skills and signs of a progressive decrease in asocial behavior. There were hallucinations in his hospital. A pathological study confirmed characteristic changes in the brain: atrophy of frontal and temporal shares, a body and peak cells.

Today, there is no peak dementia, but understanding the mechanisms of the disease can help develop methods for the treatment of other forms of dementia. This was reported by PNIP press service.