Liu Ximin

This physician graduated in 1952 from the Medical School of Tongji University in Shanghai, and remained at the school to engage in clinical and teaching work in neurology and psychiatry. From 1955 to 1956 he studied in a neurology research class organized by the Ministry of Health. In 1960 he was appointed deputy head of the Department of Neurology at the Second Hospital affiliated with Wuhan Medical College; in 1978 he became head of the department. He served as a member of the Neurology and Psychiatry Special Committee of the Medical Science Committee of the Ministry of Health, as vice-chairman of the Wuhan Neurology and Psychiatry Association in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, and as an editorial board member of the Chinese Journal of Neurology and Psychiatry.

In the early 1960s he began researching the etiology of cerebral arteritis and its relationship to Moyamoya disease; in the 1970s he confirmed an association between cerebral arteritis and Leptospira infection. In 1980 he won the National First-Class Prize for Health and Medicine Achievements. He participated in and led the development of an "electric multi-use bed," which passed provincial appraisal in 1984 and later earned Tongji Medical University’s Scientific Research Award. He participated in the project “Epidemiological Survey of Neurological Diseases in China’s Rural Ethnic Minority Areas,” serving as the Hubei site leader; in 1986 it won the Ministry of Health Science and Technology Achievement Second Prize.

Additionally, he pioneered spinal canal electroacupuncture therapy for pain, paralysis, and neurogenic urinary retention. In 1984 and 1989 he was invited to lecture in Hong Kong and Germany. His major works include: “Lectures in Internal Medicine, Volume IX – Diseases of the Nervous System,” “Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine Treatment of Paralysis,” and “Compilation of Diagnosis and Treatment for Geriatric Neurological Diseases” (Third Editor-in-Chief). He published more than 30 papers, with representative works including “Leptospiral Brain Arteritis Causing Moyamoya Disease” and “Angiographic Analysis of 100 Cases of Leptospiral Brain Arteritis.”