Georg N. Koskinas

Georg N. Koskinas (1885-1975) was a Greek neurologist-psychiatrist. He was born on December 1, 1885 in Geraki, near Sparta. [Triarhou, L.C. (2005) Georg N. Koskinas (1885-1975) and his scientific contributions to the normal and pathological anatomy of the human brain. "Brain Research Bulletin 68:" 121-139.] [Triarhou, L.C. (2006) Pioneers in Neurology: Georg N. Koskinas (1885-1975). "Journal of Neurology 253:" 1377-1378.] He studied medicine at the University of Athens, graduating in 1910, and subsequently trained as a resident in the Clinic of Psychiatry and Neurology of Aiginiteion Hospital under Michel Catsaras, a student of Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-1893). Between 1916 and 1927 he worked at the University of Vienna in neuropathology and neuroanatomy. At the Neurological Institute, his mentors in neuropathology were Heinrich Obersteiner (1847-1922) and Otto Marburg (1874-1948). In 1925 Koskinas published, with neurologist Constantin von Economo (1876-1931), the monumental "Cytoarchitektonik der Hirnrinde des erwachsenen Menschen" [Economo, C. von, Koskinas, G.N. (1925) "Die Cytoarchitektonik der Hirnrinde des erwachsenen Menschen". Textband und Atlas. Springer, Wien. ] (Cytoarchitectonics of the Adult Human Cerebral Cortex [Economo, C. von, Koskinas, G.N. (2008) "Atlas of Cytoarchitectonics of the Adult Human Cerebral Cortex". Karger, Basel.] ). His collaboration with neuropathologist Ernst Sträussler (1872-1959) [Triarhou, L.C. (2007) Pioneers in Neurology: Ernst Sträussler (1872-1959). "Journal of Neurology 254:" 1466-1467.] in the Psychiatric Clinic headed by Julius Wagner-Jauregg (1857-1940) lead to several histopathological publications related to the malaria therapy of "dementia paralytica" or general paresis of the insane, a complication of tertiary syphilis. [Sträussler, E., Koskinas, G. (1923) Über den Einfluß der Malariabehandlung der progressiven Paralyse auf den histologischen Prozeß. "Wiener Medizinische Wochenschrift 73:" 783-787.] [Sträussler, E., Koskinas, G. (1925) Weitere Untersuchungen über den Einfluß der Malariabehandlung der progressiven Paralyse auf den histopathologischen Prozeß. "Zeitschrift für die Gesamte Neurologie und Psychiatrie 97:" 176-191.] [Sträussler, E., Koskinas, G. (1926) Über „kolloide“, „hyaline“ Degeneration und über „Koagulationsnekrose“ im Gehirn. "Zeitschrift für die Gesamte Neurologie und Psychiatrie 100:" 344-374.] [Sträussler, E., Koskinas, G. (1926) Über den spongiösen Rindenschwund, den Status spongiosus und die laminären Hirnrindenprozesse. "Zeitschrift für die Gesamte Neurologie und Psychiatrie 105:" 55-71.] Following his repatriation to Greece in 1927, he founded private clinics and practised psychiatry and neurology in Kifissia, a northern Athenian suburb. Georg N. Koskinas died on July 8, 1975 in Athens at the age of 90.

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