Tengiz Oniani

Born in 1928
Dr of Biol Sci., Neurohysiologist
Candidate of Biol. Sci. - 1958
Doctor of Biol. Sci - 1964
Since 1968 up to now - Health of Lab. of Neurobiology of the Sleep-wakefulness Cycle
1975-1980 Director of I.Beritashvili Institute of Physiology.
1980 - up to now - Head of Dept. of Physiology and Experimental Medicine.
1969 - up to now - Lecturer at the Tbilisi State Univ.
1995 - up to now - Delivering a course of lectures in physiology at Medical Institute "Sakartvelo"
1995 - Member Georgian Parlament.
Tite of Professor in 1969.
Full member of Georgian National Acad. in 1979.
Awarded title of distinguished scientist in 1983.
Awarded Tarkhnishvili prize - 1966. Beritashvili prize - 1983.
Soros prize - 1993
Member of Georgian Physiological Society, IBRO, Physiol.Soc of Hungary, member of World Federation for Sleep Study, member of European Assoc. of Sleep Study.
Member of Intern. Society of the Study of aggression.
At different times under the supervision of T.Oniani in the lab. of Neurobiology of the Sleep-Wakefulness Cycle were trained young scientists from Hungary, Poland, Chekhoslovakia, Germany, USA, Canada, as well as from Moscow, and Leningrad. Among them Peter Molnar (Hungary) in 1967-1970 defended dissertation and was conferred title of Cand. of Med Sci.
Wesleyan (USA) Univ. Assistant-professor David Adams after 18-month training at the recommendation of T.Oniani got the position of a professor.
T.Oniani has been supervisor of 19 candidate and 1 doctoral dissertations.

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Papers and Monographs:

• 1. Comparative Physiology of the nervous and muscular apparats. "Metsniereba" Publ., Tbilisi, 1964
• 2. Membrane-Myofibrillar Interrelationship "Metsniereba" Publ., Tbilisi,1970
• 3. The nature of the paradoxical phase of sleep.Trans. from Fisiol.zhur SSSR, 1970, 56
• 4. Effect of the experimentally indiced epileptiform discharges on the structure and ratio of different sleep phases. Sleep and Wakefulness, 1977, 4
• 5. On the functional significance of sleep. Acta Neurobiol. Exp., 1977, 37
• 6. Integrative function of the lymbic System. "Metsniereba" Publ., Tbilisi,1980
• 7. Role of sleep in the regulation of learning and memory. Human Physiology,1982=6
• 8. Effect of partial deprivation of slow wave sleep on the sleep-wakefulness cycle structure. Phiziol Zh SSSR, 70= 8= 1984
• 9. Some aspects of conditioned reflex activing during sleep. Acta Neurobiol., Exp., 44,5,1984
• 10. Does paradoxical sleep deprivation distarb memory consolidation. Phisiol. Behavior, 33, 1984
• 11. Interaction of learning and paradoxical sleep in cats. Zh Higher Nerv.Activ.,36 3= 1986
• 12. Effect of monoaminooxidase inhibitors on the structure and ratio of sleep-wakefulness phases in cats. Neirophiziologia,20= `4= 1988 (Kiev)
• 13. Neurophisiological analysis of the effects of paradoxical sleep deprivation, Neurophysiologia. 1988, 20
• 14. Dynamics of neuronal activity of the cingulate gyrus in the sleep-wakefulness cycle. Neurophysiologia, 21, 1989
• 15. Selective and total deprivation of Paradoxical sleep though partial depriv. of deep slow-wawe sleep. Proc. I Congress physiol. Soc of Azerbaidzan. Baku, 1994
• 16. Effect of adaptation to Exp. conditions on the sleep-wakefulness cycle in guinee pigs. Proc. Georgian Nat. Acad. Sci. 150= `3= 1994
• 17. Effect of elaboration of feeding conditioned reflex on the sleep-wakefulness cycle of cats grown in social isolation. Proc. Congress of Georgian Physiol., Soc., "Metsniereba" Publ. Tbilisi,1995
• 18. Organization of sleep-wakefulness cycle during sleep deprivation. Proc. Congr of Georgian Physiol. "Metsniereba" Publ. Tbilisi, 1995
• 19. Efeect of selective deprivation of paradoxical sleep on the sleep-wakefulness cycle in rats. Bull. Georgian Acad. Sci. 151= `2= 1995
• 20. Neurophysiological, neuroethological and neuropsychological analisis of the sleep-wakefulness cycle structure. 1995
• 21. The Peculiarities of the Sleep-wakefulness Cycle in Guinea Pigs. Bulletin of the Georgian Academy of Sciences, v.156, N1, 1997
• 22. Total Sleep Deprivation Effect on Sleep-wakefulness Cycle in Guines Pigs. Bulletin of the Georgian Academy of Sciences, v.156, N3, 1997

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