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Encyclopedia > Arnold Pick

Arnold Pick ((July 20, 1851 - April 4, 1924) was a Czechoslovakian neurologist and psychiatrist . He is known for identifying the clinical syndrome of Pick's Disease and the 'Pick bodies' that are characteristic of the disorder. July 20 is the 201st day (202nd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 164 days remaining. ... 1851 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... April 4 is the 94th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (95th in leap years). ... 1924 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Czechoslovakia (Czech: ÄŒeskoslovensko, Slovak: ÄŒesko-Slovensko/before 1990 ÄŒeskoslovensko, German: Tschechoslowakei) was a country in Central Europe that existed from 1918 until 1992 (except for the World War II period). ... Neurology is the branch of medicine that deals with the nervous system and disorders affecting it. ... Psychiatry is a branch of medicine that studies and treats mental and emotional disorders (see mental illness). ... Picks disease is a dementing illness associated with deterioration of the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain. ... Pick bodies are silver-staining, spherical aggregations of tau protein in neurons associated with Picks disease. ... Disorder may refer to : A disease, in medicine Randomness (lack of order), in information theory This is a disambiguation page — a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. ...


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