DR. VLADIMIR MIKHAILOVICH BECKHTEREV
(1857-1927)


This young Russian scientist was, early on, involved in psychiatry moved at the end of the nineteenth century into the study of anatomy, psychology and pathology of the nervous system and was privileged to become a student of the great Flechsig in Leipzig when he described the superior vestibular nucleus which bears his name.

He also studied the relationship between the brain and behavior as an anatomist. He made studies on reflexes and on the cortical representation of visceral functions of blood pressure of pupillary, gastrointestinal, urovesical and anorectal mobility and of glaudular secretory activity.


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