Retired from Kaiser Permanente, Department of Neurology. Volunteer faculty at the Center for Ethics in Health Care, Oregon Health and Science University.

Neurology

Doctor Osamu Muramoto, MD works in the field of Neurology. He studied medicine at Graduate School of Medicine and Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo. Doctor Osamu Muramoto, MD is a published doctor. He has 41 papers published. The most current publication "Bioethics of the refusal of blood by Jehovah''s Witnesses: Part 2. A novel approach based on rational non-interventional paternalism."

Publications

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• Retrospective diagnosis of a famous historical figure: ontological, epistemic, and ethical considerations.
• Socially and temporally extended end-of-life decision-making process for dementia patients.
• Issues arising during the treatment of Jehovah''s Witnesses by in vitro fertilisation.
• Socrates and temporal lobe epilepsy: a pathographic diagnosis 2,400 years later.
• The role of the medial prefrontal cortex in human religious activity.
• Jehovah''s Witnesses and artificial blood.
• Bioethical aspects of the recent changes in the policy of refusal of blood by Jehovah''s witnesses.
• Medical confidentiality and the protection of Jehovah''s Witnesses'' autonomous refusal of blood.
• Jehovah's witnesses and bloodless surgery.
• Bioethics of the refusal of blood by Jehovah''s Witnesses: Part 3. A proposal for a don''t-ask-don''t-tell policy.
• Recent developments in medical care of Jehovah's Witnesses.
• Bioethics of the refusal of blood by Jehovah''s Witnesses: Part 2. A novel approach based on rational non-interventional paternalism.
• Bioethics of the refusal of blood by Jehovah''s Witnesses: Part 1. Should bioethical deliberation consider dissidents'' views?
• Jehovah''s Witnesses and blood transfusions.
• Medical ethics in the treatment of Jehovah's Witnesses.
• [De Sanctis-Cacchione syndrome: a report of a case and a review of the literature (author''s transl)].
• [Apraxia-rigidity syndrome (author''s transl)].
• [A syndrome presenting short stature, mental retardation, decreased adipose tissue, myopathy and chimpanzee-like face (author''s transl)].
• [Two cases of Parkinson''s disease with diphasic dyskinesia, seen during levodopa treatment (author''s transl)].
• [Suspected cases of familial Alzheimer''s disease-a case report and a study on aneuploidy in leukocytes (author''s transl)].
• Cholinergic system and constructional praxis: a further study of physostigmine in Alzheimer''s disease.
• Selective reminding in normal and demented aged people: auditory verbal versus visual spatial task.
• [A biochemical study of cholinergic neurons of the post-mortem brains from the patients with Alzheimer-type dementia].
• [Studies on the behavioral pharmacology of TRH-T in cytosine arabinoside-induced ataxic mice: a comparison with genetically ataxic mice].
• Developmental profiles of substance P and GABA contents in the substantia nigra of rat.
• Neurotransmitter abnormality in Rolling mouse Nagoya, an ataxic mutant mouse.
• On the origin of substance P-containing fibres in the entopeduncular nucleus and the substantia nigra of the rat.
• Nuclear distribution of glutamate, gamma-aminobutyrate and aspartate within the normal human thalamus.
• Central noradrenaline metabolism in cerebellar ataxic mice.
• [Biogenic amines and aging (author''s transl)].
• [Neurotransmitters in the brain of rolling mouse Nagoya (author''s transl)].
• Cross-cultural and multi-ethnic dementia evaluation by mental status and memory testing.
• Regional distribution of amino acid transmitters in postmortem brains of presenile and senile dementia of Alzheimer type.
• Neurotransmitter receptors in olivopontocerebellar atrophy: an autoradiographic study.
• Studies on neurotransmitter markers and neuronal cell density in the cerebellar system in olivopontocerebellar atrophy and cortical cerebellar atrophy.
• Studies on neurotransmitter markers and striatal neuronal cell density in Huntington''s disease and dentatorubropallidoluysian atrophy.
• Studies on neurotransmitter markers of the basal ganglia in Pick''s disease, with special reference to dopamine reduction.
• [Mirror writing in a case of cerebral infarction--report of a case and a consideration of its pathogenesis (author''s transl)].
• Effect of physostigmine on constructional and memory tasks in Alzheimer''s disease.
• Pure memory loss with hippocampal lesions: a pneumoencephalographic study.

Schools

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• Tokyo University Faculty of Medicine

• St Vincent39s Hospital

• University Ma Med Center

• University Tokyo Hospital

Doctors Specialties

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• Neurology

Accepted Insurances

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Education

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• University of Massachusetts
• Graduate School of Medicine and Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo

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