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At present in the department there are two laboratories: laboratory of neuroecology headed by doctor of biological sciences N. B. Suvorov; a research group of the ecology of man headed by academician of RAMS G. A. Sofronov. |
In
1950 the Department of comparative physiology and pathology of nervous
activity was organized by academician of the USSR Academy of medical
sciences (AMS) D.A.Biryukov. In 1970 the department was transformed into
the department of ecological physiology. D.A.Biryukov headed the
Department up to 1969. From 1969 to 1996 the Department was headed by a
corresponding member of AMS N.N.Vasilevsky, from 1996 to 2000 by doctor of
biological sciences N.B.Suvorov. Since 2000 the Department of ecological
physiology has been headed by academician of RAMS, Honored science worker
of RF G.A.Sofronov.
D.
A. Biryukov went down in history of the national physiological science as
a creator of a new original branch — ecological physiology of nervous
activity. Being an outstanding researcher of the questions of evolutionary
physiology he also became one of the founders of the ecological physiology
of man. D. A. Biryukov has formulated the ecological approach to an
analysis of physiological functions which remains the methodological basis
of fundamental works in the fields of ecological physiology in our country
and abroad. As early as by the early 1960ies of the last century the
Department became an essentially scientific center of studying the
problems of evolutionary and ecological physiology. One of the largest
national physiological schools has grown up in the department which gave
more than 30 doctors of sciences and exerted a strong influence on the
development of a number of scientific directions — ecology of man,
ecological and evolutionary physiology, immunophysiology, cellular
neurophysiology, neuroecology and neurocybernetics.