Longitudinal anatomic, functional, and molecular characterization of Pick disease phenotypes.

Objective: To characterize longitudinal MRI and PET abnormalities in autopsy-confirmed Pick disease (PiD) and determine how patterns of neurodegeneration differ with respect to clinical syndrome.

Methods: Seventeen patients with PiD were identified who had antemortem MRI (8 with behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia [bvFTD-PiD], 6 with nonfluent/agrammatic primary progressive aphasia [naPPA-PiD], 1 with semantic primary progressive aphasia, 1 with unclassified primary progressive aphasia, and 1 with corticobasal syndrome). Thirteen patients had serial MRI for a total of 56 MRIs, 7 had [F]fluorodeoxyglucose PET, 4 had Pittsburgh compound B (PiB) PET, and 1 patient had [F]flortaucipir PET.