10 facts about Vladimir Bekhterev

1. Date of birth of the outstanding Russian neurophysiologist remains unknown. Supposedly is 20 Jan 1857. Known only the date of baptism (January 23).

2. Know what General Vladimir Bekhterev and Sigmund Freud? They both studied with the great neurologist and psychiatrist Jean-Martin Charcot. It is true, then Freud several times nominated for the Nobel prize (once even for literature), and spondylitis — no. Bekhterev actively criticized psychoanalysis.

 

3. Another teacher Bekhterev was a founder of experimental psychology Wilhelm Wundt. Thus, Vladimir received education and psychological Sciences, brain (Wundt) and physiological (Charcot).





4. Name the disease called spondylitis: ankylosing spondylitis (it — Strumpell disease-spondylitis-Marie). This, oddly enough, not a neurological disease, and systemic joint disease. Ankylosing spondylitis suffered writers Karel Capek and Nikolai Ostrovsky.

 

5. The world's first neurosurgical Department was created by Bekhterev in the clinic of Kazan University.

6. One of the listeners made famous lectures spondylitis in Kazan University was Aleksei Maksimovich Peshkov, the future writer Maxim Gorky.

 

7. Vladimir has created the world's first neuroscientific uchebny center: in 1907 in St. Petersburg appeared the Psychoneurological Institute. It and studied and studied science.

8. After creating Bekhterev method of studying of the thinnest slices of frozen human brain, extraordinary Professor at Berlin University, an eminent anatomist and author of a manual of anatomy F. Cops saying quoted ten times: "the Anatomy of the brain knows only two: God and Bekhterev".

9. In 1920, Vladimir was fascinated by the animal training and worked together with the famous Vladimir Durov. He studied the possibility of "mental transmission to animals prearranged programme of action".

 

10. The Director of the Institute of human brain them. N. P. the RAS, the great-grandson of our hero, a member-correspondent of the RAS Svyatoslav Medvedev says that Vladimir died a violent death because of what was diagnosed with "syphilis of the brain" to Lenin. However, it is very doubtful, because Bekhterev died three years after the death of Lenin.published

 

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