Neurology, Scientific Research Institute of

(full name, Scientific Research Institute of Neurology of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR), a scientific research institution in Moscow where research is conducted on the principal diseases of the nervous system.

The institute was founded in 1945 as an outgrowth of the clinic of Nervous Diseases at the A. M. Gorky All-Union Institute of Experimental Medicine. Research efforts at the institute are primarily directed at topics concerning the vascular pathology of the brain, hereditary diseases of the nervous system, and slow infectious diseases of the nervous system. In addition to providing research and learning facilities, the institute is the organizational and methodological center for all the work that is done in neurology in the USSR. There are six clinical divisions in the institute, several laboratories, and a polyclinic. There is also a graduate program. The institute publishes scientific works and accepts candidates’ dissertations for defense. Such well-known neuropathologists as N. I. Grashchenkov and N. V. Konovalov have worked at the institute.