When the frontal lobe of the brain is injured or damaged in an accident or due to some other cause, a dementia by the name of frontal lobe dementia develops and other diseases may also cause this particular type of dementia including Pick's disease.

• Impaired social skills - people suffering from frontal lobe dementia display bizarre or inappropriate social behavior like being over friendly and getting too intimate with unknown strangers or doing physical exercises in public.
• They may also display a departure from or loosening up of accepted social decorum such as talk laced with sexual innuendos or usage of filthy language.
• Alteration in the level of activity
• Impaired judgment
• Altered personality, moods, personal habits
• Irritability
• Increased frustration levels
• Altered emotional responsiveness
• Susceptibility of frontal lobe dementia

Both men and women are at risk of contracting frontal lobe dementia that includes Pick's disease. People of all ages are vulnerable to this disease but usually its onset occurs at the age of 40 years to 65 years.

The duration of the disease will vary from patient to patient. There are some patients who decline slowly over ten or 12 years. Other patients display a sharp decadence in mental capacities over a period of 2/3 years. For some the changes will be minimal, for others it will be drastic.

Patients who have contracted FTD can live with the disease for around 8 years at an average. But the total range of duration can be 3 years to 17 years, in short there have been patients who have lived with FTD for more than 16 years.

Doctors and scientists haven't yet discovered any medication to cure or prevent or treat FTD. Sometimes a few medicines are prescribed to alleviate behavioral problems that can boost serotonin secretion - the feel good hormone in the brain.