Department of Neurology
About us
Department of Neurology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kumamoto University is the only one Institute and Mecca to conduct researches, clinical activities, and education for medical students and staffs in Kumamoto district. We believe that we are one of the most active neurologists in Japan, thus lots of young neurologists and medical students come to study about neurology. On the clinical side, we take care of various patients with disorders of brain, spinal cord, peripheral nerves and muscles as demonstrated below.
Message from Our Chair
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Diseases Treated
- Cerebrovascular diseases
- Cerebral infarction, cerebral hemorrhage, and cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA)
- Infectious diseases
- Meningoencephalitis, tetanus, prion disease, etc
- Neurodegenerative disease
- Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and related disorders, dystonia, essential tremor, spinocerebellar degeneration, dementia, motor neuron disease, facial spasm etc.
- Metabolic neuropathies
- Familial amyloid polyneuropathy, GM1-gangliosidosis, fabry disease, Wilson disease, vitamin deficiency (beriberi, Wernicke's encephalopathy, Alcoholic cerebellar degeneration, etc.
- Neurotoxicity disorders
- Carbon monoxide poisoning, pesticide poisoning, food poisoning, SMON, Minamata disease
- Demyelinating disease
- Multiple sclerosis, ADEM, Neuromyelitis optica
- Spinal cord disease
- Myelitis, cervical spondylosis, spinal cord tumor, syringomyelia, vascular disease of spinal cord, HAM
- Peripheral neuropathy
- Guillain Barre syndrome, CIDP, autonomic neuropathy, diabetic neuropathy, Bell’s palsy, Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, tunnel canal syndrome
- Neuromuscular Disorders
- Myasthenia gravis, polymyositis・dermatomyositis, inclusion body myositis, periodic paralysis, endocrine myopathy, metabolic myopathy, muscular dystrophy
- Others
- Epilepsy, migraine and tension-type headache, Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, Central vertigo, Narcolepsy
- Neurological complications occur in the following diseases: Blood disease, respiratory disease, kidney disease, liver disease, thyroid disorder, collagen disease, diabetes, malignant tumors, sarcoidosis, Behçet's disease
Research
We are working on eight special projects
- 1) Analyses of pathological mechanism and therapeutic approaches for FAP
- 2) Investigation on the pathogenesis and therapies for various types of myopathies
- 3) Assessment of the thrombolytic therapy for the hyper acute stage of the Stroke with MRI/CT, ultrasonography, DSA, and SPECT
- 4) Genetic/pathological analysis of CADASIL
- 5) Analysis of pathophysiological mechanism and development of the effective therapy for neurodegenerative disorders including sporadic and familial ALS
- 6) Diagnosis and therapies for patients with autonomic disorders.
- 7) Treatment for Parkinson’s disease
- 8) Investigation for neuroimmunologic disorders
Doctors
- Professor Mitsuharu Ueda
- Specially Appointed Professor Shunya Nakane
- Specially Appointed Professor Makoto Nakajima
- Associate Professor Satoshi Yamashita
- Lecturer (Diagnoses Service) Yohei Misumi
- Lecturer (Diagnosis Service) Teruaki Masuda
- Assistant Professor Akihiko Ueda
- Specially Appointed Assistant Professor Kotaro Takamatsu
- Specially Appointed Assistant Professor Yasuteru Inoue
- Specially Appointed Assistant Professor Akihiro Mukaino
- Specially Appointed Assistant Professor Akihito Nagatoshi
- Specially Appointed Assistant Professor Soichiro Matsubara
- Specially Appointed Assistant Professor Tetsuya Watanabe
- Specially Appointed Assistant Professor Toshiya Nomura
News and events
Thank you everyone who participated ISA 2018 in Kumamoto. You can enjoy the photo gallery highlighting special moments from the symposium. Visit the link below to get further information.
