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K.V. BAEV (2020) 'A NEW CONCEPTUAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE BRAIN: WHAT IS WRONG WITH CLASSICAL CONCEPT AND HOW SHOULD IT BE CHANGED?' in O.A. Krishtal, E.A. Lukyanetz (Eds.), ESSAYS ON NEUROPHYSIOLOGY BY PLATON KOSTYUK AND HIS STUDENTS, AKADEMPERIODYKA, pp. 102-108

A NEW CONCEPTUAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE BRAIN: WHAT IS WRONG WITH CLASSICAL CONCEPT AND HOW SHOULD IT BE CHANGED?

K.V. BAEV

    St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix, Arizon, USA
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15407/biph.books.EssNeur.102


Abstract

My scientific career started in 1969 when I joined the Ph.D. program in the Department of General Physiology at Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. The Department and the Institute were led by Prof. P.G. Kostyuk. This is where I learned how to use the microelectrode technique to study the brain. After finishing the Ph.D. program in 1972, I became interested in neural control of inborn automatic motor behaviors like locomotion and scratching. Understanding the Central Pattern Generators (CPGs) for these movements was the primary goal of the research. I believed that solving the CPG problem would be a breakthrough which would help to explain not only inborn automatic behaviors, but learned automatic behaviors as well, which are components of any complex behavior in animals and humans.

Keywords: Bogomoletz Institute, microelectrode technique, Central Pattern Generators, neural circuits, computational principle, spinal CPGs, neural optimal control system, afferent signals, brain hierarchy, dopamine deficiency.

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