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Professor emeritus Alf Brodal
Anatomical Institute
University of Oslo
Karl Johans gate 47
Oslo 1, Norway 6 January 1982
Dear Alf,
Thank you very much for your kind letters of November 25th and December 6th of
1981, which contained your useful comments on our cerebellotectal paper and upon
my writing a text-book, respectively. I am very grateful for your kind
considerations. I deeply apologize for my delayed response, even though it took
some time for me before I feel myself to answer you.
During winter holidays, we stayed three days in a mountain hot-spring resort and
enjoyed swimming and tobogganing. Yoko was especially very happy both inside and
outdoors. Takako was also relaxed, so did I. There, your kind remarks were
always in my mind and considered seriously and decided to spend some time (you
said in sum about half a year) in preparing a text-book. Since I will have many
duty-businesses in this year, I have to think in a concrete and effective manner
how to spend my time. Your advice and story of writing and revising your
Norwegian and English text-books have helped me very much. I am very grateful.
Concerning our cerebellotectal paper, we have revised, paying due tribute to
Roldan and Reinoso-Suarezfs paper, as suggested by you, and sent to Exp. Brain
Res. last year. I still regret, however, that I could not have enough time in
this work.
This evening, I will check again some other mis-printings in the new edition of
your Neurological Anatomy, and enclose a list herewith.
With my best wishes and warm greetings at the beginning of the year to Inger and
you from Takako, Yoko and myself.
Yours,
(Koki Kawamura)
P.S. We do also wish to read your memories from your childhood!
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AB/G June 11, 1982
Professor Koki Kawamura, M.D.
Department of Anatomy
School of Medicine
Iwate Medical University
Morioka 020
Japan
Dear Koki,
You may not know that your friend Masahiko Inadomi died a few days ago. I
enclose a very appreciative obituary that appeared in gAftenpostenh. You and
Takako may probably be able to understand part of it.
We hope all is well with you. Here we have for a few weeks had very nice summer
weather, and have tried to make use of it, i.a. in the garden. In a few days we
are going to Trondheim, where I am giving a lecture on Neuroanatomy for
neurosurgeons and to visit Jan Egil and his family. My scientific activity at
present is very moderate, looking at the perihypoglossal projections to the
cerebellum in the monkey. As summer approaches, activity at the institute is
gradually slowing down in general.
With kind regards to you all from both of us,
yours,
Alf
(A. Brodal)
P.S. It was indeed kind of you and Karen to call me from Lausanne some time ago!
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Professor emeritus Alf Brodal
Anatomical Institute
University of Oslo
Karl Johans gate 47
Oslo 1, Norway 24 June 1982
Dear Alf,
Thank you for your letter of June 11th and an enclosed sad news of our friend,
Inadomi. Takako knows him well and was introduced to read some books by him
while we were in Oslo. Life is indeed short, while much has to be done.
I am happy to hear that you are fine and planning the lecture visit to Tronheim.
Is Jan-Egil working there as an anatomist? Could you please ask him if I could
have a copy of his thesis-book that contains his articles?
We are all fine. I enclose a picture of my family taken on the sports-day of
Yokofs school last month. We miss you very much.
As for me, April-July is a very busy season for teaching and dissection. Writing
of the text-book has not yet started, but I will try this year. We have injected
D-[3H] aspartate into the mice, normal as well as mutant, cerebellar cortex, as
a preliminary experiment, in order to re-examine gselectiveh retrograde
transport of the material will occur in the cerebellar afferent system. I hope
we can see the autoradiographic sections in the end of August, and then discuss,
think how to proceed further. Concerning this topic, please see Science Vol.
216, 2 April, 1982, 78-80, written by Winklund, Toggenburger and Cuenod. If you
could give me your opinion or advice, I would be very, very grateful.
Hashikawa is about to finish writing a paper of the inferior collicular pontine
projection with the HRP method. He has obtained good results showing that most
of the cells are labeled in the external and pericentral nuclei which certainly
revise my previous data of the IC-pontine projection (1975) done by degeneration
methods under your guidance.
Under separate cover, I am sending you some of my recent publications.
It was unfortunate that I could not talk with you in the telephone last Tuesday
when I called Jon Storm-Mathisen asking some technical problems of
autoradiography.
We wish Inger and you are always happy and healthy, and ask you sincerely
further support and advice in future. Looking forward to seeing you again.
With best wishes from Takako, Yoko and myself.
Yours,
a picture enclosed (Koki Kawamura)
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AB/G October 15th 1982
Professor Koki Kawamura, M.D.
Department of Anatomy
School of Medicine
Iwate Medical University
Morioka 020
JAPAN
Dear Koki,
I am afraid that I have not replied to your letter of June 24th (!) since I do
not keep copies of my hand written letters. I do not clearly remember that I
have written you, but I feel I have not. I hope you will apologize (misprint).
Your letter has been on my desk for quite a time.
Inger and I enjoyed to have a picture of your family. We hope you had nice
summer. As to ourselves we had a very fine July this year, and we are both in
good shape. Our trip to Trondheim was a very nice experience (apart from our
luggage going to Tromso). The neurosurgeons were very interested in my lecture,
as far as I did understand. After some fine days in Trondheim, going sightseeing
and visiting one of my cousins, a now 80 years old lively lady, we took the
train to Steinkjer, where Jan Egil met us. We spent three days with him,
Elisabeth and their three children on their farm which is quite big, with
several cows and wide areas of cultivated earth. Beautiful landscape. We visited
also the Psychiatric Department of Levanger, where Jan Egil at present is
working, in addition to working at the farm. He has only two young persons to
help him. Elisabeth has a private practice not far from their farm and takes
care of most of the housekeeping. We were shown much of the culturally
interesting things in Nord-Trondelag and had indeed a nice time with our
friends.
Most of July we stayed at home, enjoying the garden and making smaller
excursions by car or on foot. In the first week of August we spent some days at
Hovringen Hoyfjellshotell, in the mountain district of Rondane. Perfect whether,
until the day we left. I enclose a picture that may give you an impression of
the mountains and a person who has to protect himself against the strong
sunshine!
As you may guess from this, my scientific activity has been rather modest this
summer. At present I am making a study of the normal perihypoglossal nuclei in
the monkey and the chimpanzee, and Per and I are studying the cerebellar
projection of these nuclei in the material he has of HRP injections in the
monkey cerebellum.
I understand that you and your collaborators are active as usual, and am very
grateful for your sending me reprints. It is again and again apparent how much
new information can be got by the use of the tracer techniques. ? As you know, I
am myself no expert in these matters, and I regret that I am not able to give
you any advice on the question you mention with regard to the paper by Wiklund
et al. (1982).
We hope you are well, and I finish this short report by sending you, Takako and
Yoko our best wishes,
yours,
Inger and Alf
(A. Brodal)
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Professor emeritus Alf Brodal
Anatomical Institute
University of Oslo
Karl Johans gate 47
Oslo 1, Norway 29 October 1982
Dear Alf,
Thank you for your kind letter of October 15th and your picture in the mountain
at Hovringen. Takako, Yoko and I enjoyed the figure very much. We are also happy
to hear that Inger and you enjoyed a nice summer up in the northern district. I
am glad to know that Jan-Egil is so big a person to have two professions: farmer
and psychiatrist. I guess he is still interested in the hens and chickens.
You will be surprised to know that I will go to Africa, Ghana Medical University
(Accra City) to give a series of neuroanatomical lectures for three weeks in
November until 27th/Nov. I had to accept it, because I have been asked by our
government. I remember that I was moved, in my student days, by reading Zwischen
Wasser and Urwald written by Albert Schweitzer. Hidoyo Noguchi, who discovered
syphilis spirochetes in the brain of progressive paralysis, is our great
scientist who died at Accra in 1928, while he was working on the yellow fever.
I hope I can do some work in the meantime in Ghana of the writing of research
papers and chapters of my textbook which is not in reality yet started,
unfortunately.
I will write you from there and send you a bit of hot air, and would certainly
be grateful if you could dispatch me a puff of cold wind from Oslo.
We all send Inger and you our warmest greetings.
Yours,
(Koki Kawamura)
P.S. Correspondence in Ghana
Dr. Koki Kawamura
c/o Embassy of Japan
P.O.Box 1637
Accra, Ghana
(until 27th of November)
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Nov. 21, 1982
Dear Koki,
Thank you for your letter of Oct. 29. As you mention, I was really surprised
that you were going to Ghana. I hope you get this letter before you are leaving.
I send it in the belief that every sign from gouter worldh may be particularly
welcome in a situation like yours now.
It has probably been somewhat of an unique experience to give lectures in
Neuroanatomy in Ghana, I suppose the students have been very grateful to have
some expert teaching in the field. And we seriously hope you have stood the hot
climate satisfactorily and are in good health. We are sure that Takako and Yoko
eagerly wait your return.
Here we have just got the first snow. Probably it will vanish again. Everything
is well here. Today we leave celebrated Ingerfs 72 years birthday at Anne Britfs
house, with a very nice party. Christmas preparations are starting. As to Inger
and myself we have already finished the purchase of our Christmas gifts, what I
always find is somewhat of a job!
With our best wishes from
yours
Inger and Alf
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Dec. 15. 1982
Dear Takako and Koki,
At this time we are busy writing Christmas greetings to friends at home and
abroad and we feel inclined to send you our best wishes for a happy 1983! And of
course, also for Yoko!
For Christmas Eve Anne Brit, Kari and Per and their children will be here, while
Inger Helene and Bodvar and their three children are celebrating it in their
home. On Christmas day, the entire family will gather in their place for
gbreakfasth, i.e. a very late one.
All is well here, and we hope this is the case also with you and that your stay
in the tropics, Koki, has not had any undesirable aftermaths.
All good wishes from yours
Inger and Alf
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