EPILEPSY FROM THE 19TH CENTURY SCIENTIST’S PERSPECTIVE

he review presents an analysis of the formation of the views of scientists on the pathogenesis and treatment of epilepsy in the XIX century. The authors analyze the main works of scholars Department of Nervous and Mental Diseases of the Imperial Medical-Surgical Academy, devoted to issues of experimental studies of changes in cerebral blood flow during seizures, the improvement of the treatment of patients with epilepsy. The paper also highlighted the prerequisites for the development and nature of the hypothesis of «convulsive center», and the role of V.M. Bekhterev and his students in establishing the role of the cerebral cortex in the pathogenesis of epileptic seizures.