About the book: 2016 / Ivan Pavlov is an outstanding scientist, the pride of Russian science, the creator of the science of higher nervous activity. Everything we now know about the brain is the result of the colossal work of Academician I. P. Pavlov. He received the Nobel Prize and was elected an honorary member of one hundred and thirty academies and scientific societies. In his famous “Lectures on the work of the cerebral hemispheres”, he describes the basic nervous processes, explains the concept of the reflex, and sheds light on phenomena such as dreams, hypnosis and disorders sleep. The scientific legacy of Ivan Pavlov determined the shape of modern physiology and a number of related fields - biology and medicine, psychology and pedagogy.