Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2192

VLADIMIR MIKHAILOVICH BEKHTEREV (1857-1927) Les fonctions bulbo-médullaires. Octave Doin 1909-1910 Vol. I: vi [6] 372, xii pp., 14 illus.; Vol. II: iv [6] 603, xii pp., 42 illus. 17.7 cm.

Bekhterev, trained in the Leipzig clinics of Flechsig (see No. 2100), and a contemporary of Pavlov (see No. 2129), was one of the several outstanding Russian neurophysiologists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He was primarily interested in the manner in which the various parts of the central nervous system connect and react with one another to control function. In his physiological researches Bekhterev made many important anatomical discoveries, particularly dealing with the cerebellum, medulla, and midbrain. He described the connections of the inferior olive, the nuclear formations of the reticular system, the microscopic structure of the cerebellar peduncles and the nuclei, also known as Bekhterev's nucleus. Although he initially taught at the University of Kazan and later lived and worked in St. Petersburg, much of Bekhterev's published work appeared in French and German rather than his native Russian. This special study of the bulbo-medullary centers incorporates many of his previous neurophysiological findings, relating the function of that special area of the brain to the remainder of the central nervous system. It is very characteristic of Bekhterev's thoroughness as a researcher and typifies his ability to state his findings logically and accurately.

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