Institute for Cortico-Visceral Pathology and Therapy
The Institute for Cortico-Visceral Pathology and Therapy was a medical research institute founded in 1956 and based in Berlin-Buch . The founder and director of the institute throughout its existence was Rudolf Baumann , at the time the medical director of the municipal Hufeland Hospital in Berlin-Buch, from whose clinical research department for sleep therapy the institute emerged. It was initially assigned to the Hufeland Hospital, two years after its founding it became an academy institute of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin, later the Academy of Sciences of the GDR . At the beginning of 1972, the institute and the Academy Institute for Circulatory Research headed by Albert Wollenberger became the Central Institute for Cardiovascular Research . The institute building was planned by the architect Franz Ehrlich in coordination with Rudolf Baumann.
The research activities at the institute were shaped by the theories of the Soviet physiologist and Nobel Prize winner Ivan Petrovich Pavlov and focused on the role of the cortical nervous system in the regulation of high blood pressure , stress , psychosomatic diseases and other disorders of body function. In addition to a number of research laboratories for experimental work, e.g. for neurophysiology and electrophysiology , for cardiological and hematological examinations, for radiochemistry , biochemistry and experimental pharmacology , for histology as well as for clinical physiology and psychology , the institute also had a sleep laboratory and later its own clinic 30 beds. In 1961 the institute had around 160 employees, including around 50 scientists. In 1990 it was closed.
literature
- The Institutes of Medicine and Biology 1947–1971. In: Heinz Bielka : History of the medical-biological institutes Berlin-Buch. Second edition. Springer-Verlag, Berlin and Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 978-3-540-42842-8 , pp. 83/84
- Carsten Timmermann: Pavlov in the GDR and Rudolf Baumann's Institute. In: Virginia Berridge, Kelly Loughlin: Medicine, the Market and the Mass Media: Producing Health in the Twentieth Century. Routledge, London 2005, ISBN 0-41-530432-6 , pp. 251-265
- Martin Wörner, Wolfgang Schächen, Paul Sigel: Architectural Guide Berlin. Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-49-601211-0 , p. 314