Contemporaries
Ivan Sechenov
Physiology · reflex research
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- 1863–1905
A physiologist who investigated the nervous system and central inhibition. In Reflexes of the Brain, he connected the study of mental activity with experimental physiology. His research and teaching helped establish a Russian school of physiology. He led a department at Moscow University, studied work and fatigue, and continued laboratory research after retirement. Ivan Pavlov developed ideas influenced by his work.
- Life
- 1829–1905
- Timeline period
- 1863–1905: from Reflexes of the Brain to his final research
- Moscow University
- Taught from 1889; professor and department head from 1891