MUDr. Jan Bureš, DrSc. |
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BORN:
Ctyri Dvory, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic
EDUCATION:
Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague,
M.D. (1950)
Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Prague,
Ph.D. (1955)
Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Prague,
D.Sc. (1963)
APPOINTMENTS:
Institute of Physiology, CAS, Prague (1952 - present) |
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Dr. Jan Bures, a co-founder of the
Laboratory of Neurophysiology of Memory belongs to the most prominent and
well-known brain research scientists in Czech Republic.
In the late sixties Dr. Bures pioneered research into the nature of network
connectivity underlying classical conditioning at the level of single
neurons by using electrical or iontophoretic stimulation of the recorded
cell as the unconditioned stimulus. In the early seventies, the laboratory
concentrated its efforts on additional behavioral models, conditioned taste
aversion and motor learning.
During the last two decades recognition of the importance of animal models
of declarative memory has oriented the laboratory to spatial memory research.
Relevant contributions concerned methodological development in this field
and the role of neocortex and hippocampus in the mechanisms of spatial
orientation. In the last ten years, the research of Dr. Jan Bures has
concentrated almost exclusively on spatial memory of rats and mice while
spreading depression, conditioned taste aversion, and motor learning, in
which Dr. Bures achieved a significant expertise and popularity, have
gradually been phased out.
Results of the above research form the bulk of almost 500 primary articles
and chapters and three monographs published from 1949 to 2008. Throughout
its 50-year-long history the laboratory served as training center hosting
more than 100 graduate and postdoctoral students and visiting scientists
from 27 different countries (e.g. Lynn Nadel, co-autor of world-famous book
„Hippocampus as a cognitive map“) The side products of the teaching
activities were several books on neuroscience methods which appeared in
repeated English editions and were translated into Russian and Chinese.
For this and other scientific achievements obtained in the past, Dr. Bures
received a membership in th National Academy of Sciences of the USA in 1995.
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HONORS AND AWARDS:
Central Council of IBRO (1964 –1979)
Governing Council of IBRO (1992 – 1998)
Council of the European Neuroscience Association (1992 – 1996)
Member of Academia Europea (1992)
Honorary doctorate, University of Lethbridge, Canada (1992)
Foreign Associate, National Academy of Sciences USA, (1995)
Foreign member of the Polish Academy of Sciences (2000)
Honorary Member of European Brain and Behavior Society (2000)
Honorary J. E. Purkynje Medal, Czech Academy of Sciences (2001)
Honorary doctorate, University of Toyama, Japan (2005) |
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