Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2192.1

VLADIMIR MIKHAILOVICH BEKHTEREV Obshchai︠a︡ diagnostika boliezneĭ nervnoĭ sistemy : kurs, chitannyĭ v imperatorskoĭ voenno-medit︠s︡inskoĭ akademii, Akademika V.M. Bekhtereva Izdanie K.L. Rikkera 1911-1915 First Edition ill. 26 cm.

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Extremely rare Russian original of Bekhterev’s textbook on diagnosis of diseases of the nervous system. “In nervous diseases, Bekhterev isolated a number of reflexes and symptoms that have important diagnostic significance and described new illnesses: numbness of the spine (Bekhterev’s disease), apopletic hemitonia, syphilitic dissipating sclerosis, a special form of facial tic, sever motor ataxia, acroerythrosis, chorenic epilepsy, and new phobias and obsessive states.” Bekhterev was a Russian Neurologist and the Father of Objective Psychology. He is best known for noting the role of the hippocampus in memory, his study of reflexes, and Bekhterev’s Disease. Moreover, he is known for his competition with Ivan Pavlov regarding the study of conditioned reflexes. In 1880, Bekhterev began publishing his research. One of his earlier works described Russian social issues. In this paper, he wrote essays describing the individual characteristics of the Votyaks (Udmurts), a group of people under Russian rule who live in the Udmurt Republic between the rivers Vyatka and Kama. Then on April 4, 1881, Bekhterev successfully defended his doctoral thesis, "Clinical studies of temperature in some forms of mental disorders," and received his doctorate from the Medical and Surgical Academy of St. Petersburg. This doctorate allowed Bekhterev to become a "private-docent" or associate professor, where he lectured on the diagnostics of nervous diseases. Throughout his career, Bekhterev conducted a large amount of research which greatly contributed to the current understanding of the brain. This research was described in works such as The Conduction Paths in the Brain and Spinal Cord, written in 1882, followed by a second edition written in 1896. In 1884 he published 58 scientific works about the functions of the brain. His extensive research led to an 18 month travel scholarship awarded to study and conduct research in both Germany and Paris after which, he returned to Russia and worked as the head of the Psychiatry Department at the University of Kazan until 1893.

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