title: Arnold Pick's concept of dementia.
abstract: Arnold Pick (1851-1924) provided the first description of the neurodegenerative disease associated with his name; but his importance to the field of neuroscience goes far beyond this eponymous gift. His view that the process of dementia should be seen as a mosaic of circumscribed neuropsychological deficits and not as a diffuse degradation of mental abilities is essential for progress in a cognitive neuropsychological approach to the study of dementias.
authors.affiliation: Neurologische Krankenhaus Rosenhügel, Vienna, Austria. josef.spatt@chello.at
authors.forename: Josef
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Spatt
mesh_terms: D001317:Austria; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000266:history / Q000503:physiopathology; D003704:Dementia / Q000266:history; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D019636:Neurodegenerative Diseases / Q000266:history; D009488:Neurosciences / Q000266:history; D020774:Pick Disease of the Brain / Q000266:history* / Q000503:physiopathology