Georg N. Koskinas was a Greek

Greeks

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 neurologist-psychiatrist. He was born on December 1, 1885 in Geraki

Geronthres

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, near Sparta. 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

Jean-Martin Charcot

Jean-Martin Charcot was a French neurologist and professor of anatomical pathology. He is known as "the founder of modern neurology" and is "associated with at least 15 medical eponyms", including Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis...

 (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

Heinrich Obersteiner

Heinrich Obersteiner was an Austrian neurologist who was born in Vienna. In 1870 earned his doctorate from the University of Vienna, where he worked in the laboratory of Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke ....

 (1847-1922) and Otto Marburg

Otto Marburg

Dr. Otto Marburg was a doctor who was born in Austria Hungary.-Career:He was head of the University of Vienna's Neurological Institute for 19 years. He later went to the U.S...

 (1874-1948). In 1925 Koskinas published, with neurologist Constantin von Economo

Constantin von Economo

Constantin Freiherr von Economo was a Romanian psychiatrist and neurologist of Greek origin. He is mostly known for his discovery of encephalitis lethargica and his atlas of cytoarchitectonics.- Youth and schooling :Constantin Freiherr Economo von San Serff was born in Brăila, Romania, to Greek...

 (1876-1931), the monumental Cytoarchitektonik der Hirnrinde des erwachsenen Menschen (Cytoarchitectonics

Cytoarchitectonics of the cerebral cortex

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 of the Adult Human Cerebral Cortex). His collaboration with neuropathologist Ernst Sträussler

Ernst Sträussler

Ernst Sträussler was an Austrian neuropathologist who was a native of the Moravian city of Ungarisch-Hradisch....

 (1872-1959) in the Psychiatric Clinic headed by Julius Wagner-Jauregg

Julius Wagner-Jauregg

Julius Wagner-Jauregg was an Austrian physician, Nobel Laureate, and Nazi supporter.-Early life:...

 (1857-1940) lead to several histopathological publications related to the malaria therapy of dementia paralytica or general paresis of the insane

General paresis of the insane

General paresis, also known as general paralysis of the insane or paralytic dementia, is a neuropsychiatric disorder affecting the brain and central nervous system, caused by syphilis infection...

, a complication of tertiary syphilis

Syphilis

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. Following his repatriation to Greece in 1927, he founded private clinics and practised psychiatry and neurology in Kifissia

Kifissia

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, a northern Athenian suburb. Georg N. Koskinas died on July 8, 1975 in Athens at the age of 90.