History
March 1926	Established as Shizuoka Municipal Sanatorium for tuberculosis
August 1940	Moved to current location. Name changed to Urushiyama-so
April 1943	Transferred to Nihon Medical Foundation
April 1947	Transferred to the Ministry of Health and Welfare. Independent as National Sanatorium, Urushiyama-so in August 1947
April 1968	Set up 40 beds in the wing for children with severe disabilities
March 1969	Added 40 extra beds to the wing for children with severe disabilities
March 1971	Added 40 extra beds to the wing for children with severe disabilities
March 1972	Added 40 extra beds to the wing for children with severe disabilities
April 1973	Changed name to Shizuoka Higashi Hospital
April 1975	Designated as a special center for epilepsy
October 1975	Established tuberculosis treatment stopped
December 1976	Established 100 beds in the epilepsy wards
April 1981	Established division of clinical research
January 1982	Added 100 beds more to the epilepsy wards (200 beds for epilepsy, 160 beds for patients with severe disabilities)
February 1989	Designated as a clinical training epilepsy center for foreign physicians
July 1991	Designated as a referral hospital
March 1993	Approval of long-term intracranial EEG-Video monitoring as "advanced medical technology"
May 1995	Approval of Magnetoencephalography as "advanced medical technology"
October 2001	Name changed to Shizuoka Medical Institute of Neurological Disorders. Added 50 extra beds to the wing for Neurological department
April 2004	Name changed to Shizuoka Institute of Epilepsy and Neurological Disorders.