Institute of Human Brain of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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INSTITUTE OF THE HUMAN BRAIN of the Russian Academy of Sciences, situated at 9 Akademika Pavlova Street. It was founded in 1990 on the initiative of N. V. Bekhtereva, a member of the academy, based on the neurophysiology department of the Institute of Experimental Medicine and the laboratory of positron emission tomography of the Sechenov Institute of Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry under the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Its major research areas include physiology of higher mental functions such as thinking, speech, attention, emotions, and creativity, neurobiochemistry of normal and pathological states of the human brain, and new techniques for diagnosing and treating brain diseases. The institute is now engaged in the modern discipline of psychosurgery developing related devices and appliances. It has also developed techniques of electric and electromagnetic stimulation for treating chronic diseases of the nervous system, etc.

Reference: Санкт-Петербургский научный центр Российской академии наук. СПб., 2001.

O. N. Ansberg. Behtereva Natalia Petrovna
Sechenov Ivan Mikhailovich
Akademika Pavlova St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 9
Санкт-Петербургский научный центр Российской академии наук. СПб., 2001 Institute of Experimental Medicine
Sechenov Institute of Physiology and Biochemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences