Arnold Pick
Arnold Pick · Science & Medicine
Neurologist and psychiatrist who first described the dementia now called Pick's disease.
1851, Velké Meziříčí, Moravia (Austrian Empire; now Czech Republic) — 1924, Prague
Austria-Hungary · Czech lands
Arnold Pick is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Neurologist and psychiatrist who first described the dementia now called Pick's disease.
Pick was a neurologist and psychiatrist who first described the progressive dementia associated with focal brain atrophy now known as Pick's disease, a landmark in the study of frontotemporal dementias. He was born into a Jewish family in Moravia and spent most of his career at the German university in Prague.
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Neurologist and psychiatrist who first described the dementia now called Pick's disease.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
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