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Georg N. Koskinas (1 December 1885 – 8 July 1975) was a
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neurologist-psychiatrist. He was born on 1 December 1885 in Geraki, near Sparta. He studied medicine at the University of Athens, graduating in 1910, and 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).


Career

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 Constantin Freiherr von Economo ( gr, Κωνσταντίνος Οικονόμου; 21 August 1876 – 21 October 1931) was an Austrian psychiatrist and neurologist of Greek descent, born in modern-day Romania (then Ottoman Empire). He is mos ...
(1876-1931), the monumental ''Cytoarchitektonik der Hirnrinde des erwachsenen Menschen'' ( Cytoarchitectonics of the Adult Human Cerebral Cortex). His collaboration with neuropathologist Ernst Sträussler (1872-1959) 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
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, a complication of tertiary syphilis.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.


Death

Georg N. Koskinas died on 8 July 1975 in Athens at the age of 89.


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Koskinas, Georg N. Greek neurologists 1885 births 1975 deaths 20th-century Greek physicians