Pick’s Disease is a rare and fatal degenerative disease of the nervous system. Clinically there are major overlaps with Alzheimer’s presenile dementia. Arnold Pick was born of German-Jewish parents in a village called Velke Mezirici (Gros-Meseritsch) in Moravia. He studied medicine at Vienna... Read more →

Korsakoff was one of the greatest neuropsychiatrist of the 19th century and published numerous works in neuropathology, psychiatry, and forensic medicine. Apart from his studies on alcoholic psychosis he introduced the concept of paranoia and wrote an excellent textbook on psychiatry. Read more →  Read More →

Jules Cotard (June 1, 1840 - August 19, 1889) was a French neurologist who is best known for first describing the Cotard delusion, the delusional belief that you are dead, do not exist or do not have bodily organs. Read more →  Read More →

English born, English bred, forgotten by the English and the world at large, such was the fate of James Parkinson – J. G. Rowntree, 1912 James Parkinson was the son of John Parkinson, an apothecary and surgeon practicing in Hoxton Square, London. Where James studied is not known, but in 1784 his... Read more →