[The importance of Arnold Pick for modern concepts of degenerative dementia. Retrospect and appreciation].
It will be shown that the contribution of Arnold Pick (1851-1924) goes far beyond the first description of the disorder associated with his name. His view that the process of dementia should not be conceptualised as a diffuse degradation of mental abilities but as a mosaic of circumscribed neuropsychological deficits is as modern now as it was then and is a prerequisite for the differential diagnosis of degenerative dementias during life.
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II. Neurolog. Abt., Neurologisches Krankenhaus Rosenhügel, Riedelgasse 5, A-1130 Wien. josef.spatt@chello.at
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