| Born in Czechoslovakia he later studied in Germany, where he was interested in both neurology and psychiatry. His mentor was influential in Pick’s later studies of the aphasias. He was an infatigable worker with some 350 publications, the most famous on lobar cortical atrophy (Pick’s disease). He wrote a textbook on neuropathology. He was expert in his ideas on aphasia and apraxia. Further he excelled in the knowledge of functional location in the brain. He will be remembered as a great neuropathologist. |  |
Pick's bodies in a case of Pick's disease |