Arnold Pick

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Arnold Pick

Arnold Pick (born July 20, 1851 in Groß Meseritsch , Moravia ; † April 4, 1924 in Prague ) was a psychiatrist and neurologist and a successful university lecturer for doctors in his field.

Life

Arnold Pick, who came from a family of Jewish faith, studied medicine at the University of Vienna and was already as a student assistant to Theodor Meynert . In 1875 he earned his doctorate in medicine and became an assistant to Carl Friedrich Otto Westphal in Berlin , where Carl Wernicke also worked. These influenced Picks early work on aphasia . In 1875 he went to the Grand Ducal Oldenburg Insane Asylum as a doctor in Wehnen (today: Wehnen State Hospital).

In 1877 Pick was appointed to the state insane asylum in Prague II Katharinen ("Katerinke") and in 1878 became a lecturer in psychiatry and neurology at the Charles University in Prague . In 1880 he became director of the state insane asylum Dobrzan , in 1886 professor at the German Charles University in Prague and head of the psychiatric clinic with extensive scientific publications. In 1887 he was accepted into the Leopoldina and he was a member of numerous scientific societies in Germany and abroad. Arnold Pick died in 1924 of septicemia following gallstone surgery.

Scientific achievement

His discovery of the origin of the fibers of the cerebellar cord tract from the axillary cylinders of the ganglion cells of Clark's columns, his microscopic studies of the central canal and new methods of pathological histology found particular recognition. To this end, Arnold Pick undertook extensive pathological examinations on patients with psychiatric illnesses. His publications on the cortical localization of language disorders gained international recognition. In addition to his approximately 350 publications (see publications), he wrote a textbook on the pathology of the nervous system . He worked closely with Otto Kahler , who was also a full professor at the German Charles University in Prague. In 1880 they recognized the arrangement of the nerve fibers in the spinothalamic tract, the so-called Kahler-Pick law .

Arnold Pick was the first neurologist to describe a subtype of frontotemporal dementia (FTD), a degenerative brain disease known as Pick's disease . The intraneuronal complements that arise from antibodies and neurotubules were called Pick's bodies , which can also occur in mentally healthy people, and there are other frontotemporal dementias without them. The medical-historical term Pick's disease is therefore only conveyed to a limited extent in specialist circles in the training of psychiatrists and neurologists.

In 1908, Arnold Pick coined the term autotopagnosia for the inability to correctly localize skin stimuli on one's own body while maintaining surface sensitivity.

Publications

  • Contributions to the pathology and pathological anatomy of the central nervous system, with comments on the normal anatomy of the same. Karger, Berlin 1898.
  • Studies in brain pathology and psychology. Berlin 1908.
  • About language comprehension . Barth, Leipzig 1909.
  • Agrammatic speech disorders; Studies on the psychological foundation of aphasia. Springer, Berlin 1913.
  • About primary chronic dementia (so. Dementia praecox) in adolescence. In: Prague medical weekly. 16, 1891, pp. 312-315.
  • about 350 smaller treatises. Directory in Archives for Psychiatry and Nervous Diseases 72 (1925) 1 ff.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pick A .: About disorders of the orientation in one's own body (work from the German Psychiatric University Clinic Prague). Karger, Berlin 1908.
personal data
SURNAME Pick, Arnold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Psychiatrist and neurologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Velké Meziříčí , Moravia
DATE OF DEATH April 4, 1924
Place of death Prague