Japan Society of Neurologists

Our Mission

The Japanese Society of Neurology (JSN) is an academic relationship of clinical neurologists and neuroscientists. It plans to add to the change of neuroscience and neurology and work for the treatment and thought of patients with neurological ailments, with shared joint effort among people and with individuals required in related academic and convenient fields in Japan and abroad

As of May 2016, the overall population had 8,500 people, the bigger piece of whom were neurologists and 5,400 of whom were board-attested neurologists. The President is Dr. Ryosuke Takahashi, Professor of Neurology, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine. JSN disseminates two power journals: Rinsho Shinkeigaku (Clinical Neurology), which is dispersed month to month in Japanese with English overviews since 1960, and Neurology and Clinical Neuroscience, which is appropriated bimonthly in English since 2013. JSN holds a yearly academic meeting for all people together with the social affair of agents once every year. Seven commonplace branches exist under JSN, and each of them holds neighborhood get-togethers two to four times every year.

At the fifth Neurologist Association Meeting held tight November 9, 1959 in Tokyo, it was picked that the JSN Annual Meeting would be held the following year. Consistently since 1956, specialists required in clinical neurology have held the Neurologist Association Meeting while the Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Internal Medicine was in session. In any case, in 1959, after the fourth Neurologist Association Meeting was held in the midst of the Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Internal Medicine, the fifth meeting was held in November of that year. It was picked that a self-governing insightful affiliation called the Japanese Clinical Neurology Society would be developed as the Japanese branch of WFN. Shigeo Okinaka, a Professor of inside pharmaceutical at the University of Tokyo, was picked as the Japanese branch specialist. The WFN Chairperson Ludo van Bogaert offered his well done on the establishment of this Japanese branch. Charles M Poser, a Medical Executive Officer, came to Japan as an agent of WFN to give an uncommon talk at the meeting and before long passed on the message of well done from the Chairperson van Bogaert. Thusly, a specific academic culture in the field of neurology was set up openly from JSPN and the Japanese Society of Internal Medicine as a branch of WFN, which is a worldwide neurology society. This transformed into the starting stage for the resulting headway of neurology in Japan and is a to an extraordinary degree immense event.