Institute for the Study of Higher Nervous Activity

The Institute for the Study of Higher Nervous Activity is a research institute that existed in 1925-1932. in Moscow.

In the light of the directive of the XII Party Congress (1923), a Section of Natural and Exact Sciences was created at the Comacademy ( Communist Academy of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR ( CEC of the USSR )). The section began officially working in February 1925, O.Yu. was appointed its head. Schmidt . Under the section, the Institute for the Study of Higher Nervous Activity was created, the provision of which was considered at a meeting of the Presidium of the Komacademy on October 10, 1925. By the Decree of the Council of People 's Commissars of the USSR of November 28, 1925, the regulation on the institute was approved [1] . In fact, the institute began to work in 1926. ^[1] The following departments worked in its composition:

• Physiological
• Anatomical and histological
• Biochemical and
• Experimental pathological [2]

The first director of the institute is the student I.P. Pavlova , physiologist D.S. Fursikov [3] [4] .

During research at the institute, a number of innovations were introduced:

As an object for research, the Institute uses not only dogs, but also monkeys, i.e. animals with a more perfect brain structure and more complex behavior. The systematic application of the method of conditioned reflexes to study the behavior of monkeys is carried out for the first time, for the first time the registration of motor reactions with the help of cinema has also been introduced.

- Archive of the RAS, f. 350, on. 1 unit hr 22, l 123 [5]

In 1932, the institute was reorganized and was included in the All-Union Institute of Experimental Medicine (VIEM), which later served as the model for the creation of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences

In 1928-1930 it was located in the estate Pokrovskoye-Streshnevo