Principal Investigator, Laboratory of General Pathology of the Nervous System The Institute of General Pathology and Pathophysiology, 8 Baltiyskaya St., 125315 Moscow, RUSSIA DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH: May 13, 1954, Moscow Russia (1971-1976) - Moscow State University, Biological Faculty, Moscow, Russia (1980) - Ph.D. The title of the thesis – “Electrogenesis and Na-K-ATPase Activity in Epileptic Foci of Brain Cortex.” (2000 )- Doctor of Biology. The title of the thesis – “A New Model of Experimental Depressive Syndrome: Pathophysiological Mechanisms.” Member of Russian Scientific Society for Pathophysiology Member of Russian Association for the Study of Pain (IASP Chapter)