Arnold Pick

Arnold Pick ( born July 20, 1851 in United Meseritsch, Moravia, † April 4, 1924 in Prague ) was a psychiatrist and neurologist.

Life

Arnold Pick, who was born into a Jewish family, studied medicine in Vienna and was already as a student assistant at Theodor Meynert. In 1875 he earned his doctorate and became an assistant to Carl Friedrich Otto Westphal in Berlin, where Carl Wernicke worked. This influenced picks early work on aphasia. In 1875 he went as physician to the lunatic asylum in Grossherzogliche Oldenburgische Wehnen (now Regional Hospital Wehnen ).

1877 Pick of the Provincial Lunatic Asylum in Prague ( "Kate Rinke " ) was appointed and in 1878 professor of psychiatry and neurology at the University of Prague. In 1880 he became director of the Provincial Lunatic Asylum Dobrzan and 1886, professor and head of the psychiatric clinic of the University of Prague. In 1887 its inclusion in the Leopoldina.

He died of septicemia following a gall stone operation.

Scientific performance

Pick undertook extensive pathological studies in patients with psychiatric disorders, especially those obtained on the cortical localization of language disorders international recognition. In addition to his 350 publications, he wrote a textbook on the pathology of the nervous system.

Pick worked closely with Otto Kahler, also professor in Prague, together. In 1880 she realized the arrangement of the nerve fibers in the spinothalamic tract ( " Kahler -Pick law" ).

Pick first described a subtype of frontotemporal dementia (FTD ), a degenerative brain disease that has been referred to as Pick's disease. The occurring intra- euro national complements of antibodies and neurotubules called " Pick's bodies." However, " Pick's bodies" also occur in healthy people and there are numerous frontotemporal dementia without them. The term Pick's disease is therefore actually no longer used.

Writings

• Contributions to the pathology and pathological anatomy of the central nervous system, the same with comments on the normal anatomy. Berlin, Karger, 1898.
• Studies of brain pathology and psychology. Berlin, 1908.
• About the language comprehension. Leipzig, Barth, 1909.
• The agrammatischen language disorders; Studies on the psychological foundations of aphasia teaching. Berlin, Springer, 1913.
• About primary chronic dementia ( so. dementia praecox ) at a young age. Prague medicinische Wochenschrift, 16, 312-15, 1891