Etsuro Mori, M.D, Ph.D

Professor, Department of Behavioral Neurology and Neuropsychiatry, Osaka University
Professor Emeritus, Tohoku University

Lecture Title: Disproportionately Enlarged Subarachnoid Space Hydrocephalus (DESH) representing the most major and homogeneous iNPH phenotype

 Professor Mori graduated from Kobe University School of Medicine and became a board-certified neurologist. After working at the Hyogo Brain and Heart Center at Himeji in Japan, the Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation in California, USA, and the Hyogo Institute for Aging Brain and Cognitive Disorders in Japan, he was appointed as a professor in the Department of Behavioral Neurology and Cognitive Neuroscience at Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine in 2003. Following his retirement from Tohoku University in 2017, he founded the Department of Behavioral Neurology and Neuropsychiatry at Osaka University. He has authored 450 original research articles covering stroke, behavioral neurology, and dementia. Notably, he identified the significance of DESH in the diagnosis of iNPH and spearheaded multicenter clinical trials of shunt surgery for iNPH, known as SINPHONs. Professor Mori also chaired Hydrocephalus 2017, held in Kobe, Japan.