Popov, Nikolai Mikhailovich (psychiatrist)

The son of a priest of the Vyatka province , studied at the Vyatka gymnasium (1873) and the Imperial Medical and Surgical Academy , which he graduated in 1877.

He studied mental illness in the clinic of Professor Merzheevsky, where he wrote a doctoral dissertation: “Materials for the study of acute myelitis of toxic origin” (dissertation, 1882), then served as a resident in the hospital of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker .

In 1888 he received a professorship at the University of Warsaw . In 1894 he moved to Kazan .

Since 1895, Popov, together with Professor Bekhterev , edited the journal Neurological Bulletin.

In 1897, Popov published lectures on general psychopathology.

He published dozens of articles on various issues of psychiatry and on the pathological anatomy of the central nervous system in special journals, including:

• "The main provisions of modern psychiatry" ("Archive of Psychiatry", 1888, vol. XII),
• "On changes in the nerve elements of the central system in canine rabies" (Warsaw, 1890),
• "Dreams and insanity" (Warsaw, 1890),
• "Pathological and anatomical changes in the central nervous system in Asian cholera" (Warsaw, 1893),
• “The role and significance of psychiatry in modern science and life” (Neurological Bulletin, (1694),
• "Materials for the pathological anatomy of mental illness" (Kazan, 1896),
• “Pathological and anatomical changes in the brain in acute delirium” (Neurological Bulletin, 1897).

• Popov, Nikolai Mikhailovich // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.