Okinaka Shigeo

Okinaka Shigeo

Okinaka Shigeo ( Japanese 沖 中 重 雄 ; born October 8, 1902 in Ishikawa Prefecture ; died April 20, 1992 ) was a Japanese internist and neurologist.

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Okinaka Shigeo graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at Tōkyō University and was hired there in 1931 as an assistant. From 1931 he stayed for further training in the USA and in Europe. In 1943 he became assistant professor, in 1945 professor.

Okinaka conducted studies to clarify the regulation of fluids in the body, to clarify the disorders of the cerebral blood vessels and the autonomic nervous system of various internal organs. Okinaka worked with his teacher Kure Ken (1883-1940) to clarify the management of the spinal parasympathetic nervous system. Okinaka also carried out a large number of autopsies to compare them with clinical reports. He was director of the Toranomon Hospital in Tōkyō.

In 1961, Okinaka was awarded the Imperial Prize (恩賜 賞, Onshi-shō) of the Academy of Sciences . In 1970 he was honored as a person with special cultural merits and was awarded the Order of Culture in the same year . He also served as one of the four vice presidents of the World Federation of Neurology. After his death, the Toranomon Hospital was renamed the "Okinaka Memory Research Institute for Aging Diseases" (冲 中 記念 成人 病 研究所, Okinaka kinen seijinbyō kenkyūjo).

Okinaka wrote a number of writings including

• "Clinical examination and critical assessment based on the autopsy, final consideration" (内科 臨床 と 剖 検 に よ る 批判, 最終 講義, Naika-rinsho to hoken ni yoru hihan, saishō kōgi), 1997
• "The doctor's heart" (医師 の 心, Ishi to kokoro), 1978
• "My curriculum vitae" (私 の 履 歴 書, Warakushi no rireki-sho) ， 1971 （not on sale）
• "Doctor and patient" (医師 と 患者, Ishi to kanja), 1965

literature

• S. Noma (Ed.): Okinaka Shigeo . In: Japan. An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Kodansha, 1993. ISBN 4-06-205938-X , p. 1140.

Web links

• Biographies Okinaka Shigeo depicting the "Okinaka Kinen Seijinbyo Kenkyujo", Japanese

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . So Okinaka is the family name, Shigeo the first name.