Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences 2015; 69: 308
doi:10.1111/pcn.12293
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ROFESSOR MOTOICHIRO KATO passed away due to lung cancer in March 2015 at the age of 60.
He was a professor of medicine at Keio University. He had been a field editor for Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences since 2008, and had devoted himself to the development of the journal since then. Kato was my classmate at the medical school of Keio University. We underwent residency training for psychiatry together. Kato and I shared personal experiences for almost 45 years. Our mutual friend, Satoru
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Iwashita, who is now the director of Sakuragaoka Kinen Hospital, remembers that during medical school, Kato belonged to the baseball club and practiced judo. He also played the saxophone very well. Iwashita says that Kato was then a healthy and strong sportsman, and nobody imagined that he would ever become ill. Kato was a brilliant scholar of cognitive neurosciences with a broad knowledge and bright ideas. He published a number of marvelous papers on higherbrain-function deficits and neuroimaging findings of psychiatric disorders. He also participated in many research projects organized by Tetsuya Suhara, a program leader of the Department of Molecular Neuroimaging in the National Institute of Radiological Sciences. Suhara clearly remembers Kato’s wonderful contribution to brain-imaging research, as well as his warm mentorship for young scientists. Kato was loved by many friends and his students, and by patients and their families as well. He has passed away physically, but he has left a long-lasting impact and legacy. Kato will always be remembered as an altruistic psychiatrist and a warm and sharp leader of neuropsychology. Shigenobu Kanba, MD, PhD Editor-in-Chief
© 2015 The Author Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences © 2015 Japanese Society of Psychiatry and Neurology
doi:10.1111/pcn.12293
Obituary
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ROFESSOR MOTOICHIRO KATO passed away due to lung cancer in March 2015 at the age of 60.
He was a professor of medicine at Keio University. He had been a field editor for Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences since 2008, and had devoted himself to the development of the journal since then. Kato was my classmate at the medical school of Keio University. We underwent residency training for psychiatry together. Kato and I shared personal experiences for almost 45 years. Our mutual friend, Satoru
308
Iwashita, who is now the director of Sakuragaoka Kinen Hospital, remembers that during medical school, Kato belonged to the baseball club and practiced judo. He also played the saxophone very well. Iwashita says that Kato was then a healthy and strong sportsman, and nobody imagined that he would ever become ill. Kato was a brilliant scholar of cognitive neurosciences with a broad knowledge and bright ideas. He published a number of marvelous papers on higherbrain-function deficits and neuroimaging findings of psychiatric disorders. He also participated in many research projects organized by Tetsuya Suhara, a program leader of the Department of Molecular Neuroimaging in the National Institute of Radiological Sciences. Suhara clearly remembers Kato’s wonderful contribution to brain-imaging research, as well as his warm mentorship for young scientists. Kato was loved by many friends and his students, and by patients and their families as well. He has passed away physically, but he has left a long-lasting impact and legacy. Kato will always be remembered as an altruistic psychiatrist and a warm and sharp leader of neuropsychology. Shigenobu Kanba, MD, PhD Editor-in-Chief
© 2015 The Author Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences © 2015 Japanese Society of Psychiatry and Neurology
