Question:
I wondered if someone here might also beable to help. After four years of psychiatric problems, my best friendhas been diagnosed with Pick's Disease, a rare, progressive,degenerative disorder of the frontal lobes for which there is notreatment. Does anyone know of any trials? Any drugs which might slowprogression? She lives in Victoria, B.C.

Answer: if you have access to Medline you might find something there or youcould look on either Harvard's or John Hopkins web site. Also you couldwrite the National Institute of Health in Washington D.C.. I will askaround at my hospital and do some web searching to see if I can findsomething.

What I havefound so far gives plenty of information about this dreadful disease but noinformation about any research -- the web pages I've read just say thereare no treatments. There don't seem to be any Medline abstracts (Isearched for "Pick's Disease" and got thousands of references containingthe word "Disease" but nothing for "Pick's". I also tried "frontal lobe"and got lots of Alzheimers info only) so I guess no one is publishinganything about this.

You might try the Merck Manual on-line. The hard copy book is outdated,but they do update the one on their website.