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
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(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
general paresis of the insane
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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
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Greek neurologists
1885 births
1975 deaths
20th-century Greek physicians