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Georgian Academy of Sciences

Naneishvili Temur

Date of Birth: 4^th August 1940

Scientific title: Doctor of Biol. Sci. (Human and Animal Physiology)

Information about Scientific titles:

1967 – Dissertation to earn Candidate's degree on the topic: The role of amygdaloid complex and pyriform cortex in the regulation of behaviour.

1985 – Dissertation to earn Doctor's degree on the topic: Functional organisation of the mechanisms of spatial short-term memory

Main sphere of scientific activities:

Regularities of the central nervous system functional organisation, motivated behaviour, neural mechanisms of the phenomena of sleep, memory, and "drug addiction" (95 scientific papers, 2 monographs and 3 hand-books).

Pedagogical Activity:

1995 – to the present – A course of lectures (Psychophysiology of Behaviour): I. Javakhishvili State University, Tbilisi; Tbilisi State Medical University; P. Shotadze State Medical Institute; Medical Institute "Ayety"; Medical Institute "Tbilisi"; Medical Institute "Sakartvelo".

1998 – up to now – Professor of Tbilisi State University. Supervisor of 5 candidate dissertations.

Scientific-Organizational Activity:

1985 – up to now – Head of the laboratory of Memory Neurophysiology;

2000 – up to now – Chairman of Scientific Council and Director of I. Beritashvili Institute of Physiology;

2001 – up to now – Chairman of Candidate and Doctor's Scientific Council at I. Beritashviil Institute of Physiology;

2002 – up to present – Editor-in-chief of a scientific journal: Georgain Journal of Neurosciences.

Membership of Scientific Academies and Societies:

1972-1996 – Scientific Secretary of Georgian I. Beritashvili Physiological Society,

1995 – Academician of the Academy of Medico-Biological Community,

1996 – up to present – Vice-President of Georgian I. Beritashvili Physiological Society,

2002 – up to present – Vice-President of Georgian Department of the International Brain Research Organisation (IBRO).

Addresses:

Office – I. Beritashvili Institute of Physiology, 14, Gotua st., Tbilisi 380060,

tel. 371231; 370305, Fax – (995-32) 941045.

E-mail: [email protected]

Home – 9, Giorgi the Fine (Brtskinvale) st. .flat 76, Tbilisi, Georgia

Tel. – 533590

Monographs:

Delayed behaviour and mental activity in lower monkeys (together with A.N.Bakuradze), Metsniereba Publ., Tbilisi, 1981, p. 98 (in Russian).

Neurophysiological bases of spatial short-term memory. Metsniereba Publ., Tbilisi, 1985, p. 141 (in Russian).

Physiology of Behaviour. Tbilisi, 1995. p. 239 (in Georgian).

Psychophysiology of Behaviour. Megobroba Publ., Tbilisi, 1996, p. 476 (in Georgian).

Synapse - from a molecule to behaviour. Tbilisi, 2002, p. 150 (in Georgian).

List of scientific Works

1. About the interaction of spinal cord reaction at paired stimulation of afferent nerves. Fiziol.Zh.SSSR, 1965. 60,1, 65-70 (in Russian).

2. On the nature of paradoxical phase of sleep. Fiziol.Zh.SSSR, 1970, 56-63 (in Russian).

3. On neurophysiological mechanisms of delayed reactions. Fiziol.Zh.SSSR, 1970, 55, 6-12 (in Russian).

4. On the nature of paradoxical phase of sleep. Fiziol.Zh.SSSR, 1970, 56, 6-12 (in Russian).

5. Role of some limbic structures in the activation of neocortex after transsection of brain stem at the level of colliculus. Fiziol.Zh.SSSR, 1975, 7, 985-990 (in Russian).

6. Effect of periheric stimulation to electrical activity of the neocortex in chronically premesencephalic cats. Neirofiziologia, 1975, 5, 493-498 (in Russian).

7. About the participation of posterior hypothalamus in the activity of ascending activating system. Bull. eksper. biol. i med., 1975, 8, 3-5 (in Russian).

8. Effect of stimulation of the posterior hypothalamus to electrical activity of the neocortex of chronic premesencephalic cats. Neirofiziologia, 1976, 1, 47-53 (in Russian).

9. On the role of cerebral prefrontal cortex in the phenomenon of memory in lower monkeys. International Conference "Gagrskie Besedi, 1978 (in Russian).

10. Do Amigdaloid nucleus centralis and nucleus lateralis serve similar functions in defensive responding in cats? Acta neurobiol Exp. ,1983, 43, 141-163.

11. Significance of emotional excitation in the mechanisms of short-term memory in lower apes. Neurosci. Behav. Physiol., 1987, Jan-Feb 17, 43-9.

12. Regularities of spatial delayed responses (indirect type) in different conditions of testing. Biological Series. Proceedings of the Georgian Academy of Sciences. 1999, N 4-6, vol 25.

13. Formation of mechanisms of spatial short-term memory in children at 18-54 months age. Zh. visshei nerv. deiat., 2001. 51, 3. 315-319 (in Russian).

14. On conflict nature of "spatial delayed reaction" test. . Zh. visshei nerv. deiat., 2002. 52,1, 78-84

15. The importance of the drug-self administration frequancy during the development of drug-addiction and formation of "heavy" user in Albino rats. Bulletin of the Georgian Academy of Sciences, 2002, 165,1, 98-101.

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