Davidenkov

DAVIDENKOV, Sergei Nikolaevich (born in 1880), professor of neuropathology. After graduating from the medical faculty of Moscow University (1904), he worked in psychiatric hospitals of the Moscow and Kharkov provincial zemstvos. In 1912, he was elected privat-docent of Kharkov University and in the same year became professor of the department of nervous and mental diseases at the Kharkov Women's Medical Institute. In 1920, he moved to the department of nervous diseases at Baku University, of which he was rector for three years. Since 1925, D. has been teaching neuropathology at the advanced courses for physicians of the Moscow Health Department and heads the nervous department of the Institute for the Study of Occupational Diseases named after V. A. Obukhov in Moscow.

The majority of Davidenkov's scientific works concern clinical neuropathology. Main works: "To the doctrine of acute ataxia Leyden-Westphal" (dissertation, Kharkov, 1911); "Materials for the doctrine of aphasia" (Kharkov, 1915); "Protective reflexes" (Alexandria, 1918); "Contracture precoce d'origine reflexe" (Revue neurologique, vol. XXVII, 1920; see Hormetonus); "Hereditary diseases of the nervous system" (Kharkov, 1925); "Uber die neurotische Muskelatrophie Charcot-Marie" (Zeitschrift f. d. ges. Neurologie, Band CVII-CVIII, 1927).