An early description of slowly progressive aphasia
C. Luzzatti and K. Poeck
Department of Neurology, Klinikum Rheinisch-Westfalischen Technischen Hochschule, Aachen, West Germany.
Slowly progressive aphasia without generalized dementia has become an
important issue of present-day neuropsychological research. Historically,
credit for the first description is usually given to Pick. Another
German-speaking author who has published a vivid description of a pertinent
cases is Pick's contemporary, Max Rosenfeld. This author has also observed
a patient with slowly progressive spatial disorientation and visual
recognition deficit, and he has discussed these patients in a remarkably
modern way in the context of partial atrophy of the brain.
