The Kazan period of V.M. Bekhterev's activity

V. M. Bekhterev was one of the founders of the anatomico-physiological direction in psychiatry. His activity in this field was especially fruitful in Kazan. Here he completed his classic work "Brain and spinal cord pathways", which is a reference book for neuropathologists and psychiatrists up to now. Here he (partly with N. A. Mislavsky) carried out a number of original experimental studies of functions of different parts of brain and wrote many works on elucidation of the influence of cerebral cortex on innervation of heart, vessels, breathing, stomach, intestines, bladder, vagina, pupil muscles, activity of lacrimal and salivary glands. These works indicate that V.M. Bekhterev was one of the first in the world to deal with the question of cortical regulation of vegetative functions of visceral organs.