SEPP

SEPP Eugene Konstantinovich, contemporary neuropathologist (born in 1878). Graduated from the medical faculty of Moscow University in 1904. From 1904 to 1906 - military service. Then continuous work in the nervous diseases clinic of Moscow University in the position of extern-ordinator, assistant, privat-docent. In 1913 he received the title of professor and took the position of director of the clinic for nervous diseases in the private medical institute of Statkevich and Izacheva in Moscow; from 1919 to 1924 in the Higher Medical School (3rd University); from 1924 to 1929 in the 2nd Moscow State University. From 1929 to the present time - director of the clinic for nervous diseases in the 1st Moscow Medical Institute. The direction of S. as a neuropathologist is characterized by the desire to understand each phenomenon as a process in all the complexity of its relationships and causal connections. Hence the predominant attention to the pathogenesis of the disease with a thorough analysis of the anatomical substrate and the functions associated with it. The majority of S.'s works are anatomical-physiological, and this also characterizes his guide 'Clinical Analysis of Nervous Diseases' (part 1, Moscow-Leningrad, 1927). Special mention should be made of S.'s 'gate theory' (1923), in which he concludes about the presence of adaptive functions in the sympathetic system regulating the quantitative and qualitative aspects of the processes of the cerebrospinal system. Of great importance is S.'s monograph 'Die Dynamik der Blutzirkulation des Gehirns' (Berlin, 1928). S.'s works over the last 2 years have been concentrated on the study of the development history of the nervous system, part of which was presented in essays in the journal of Soviet neuropathology, psychiatry and psychohygiene, 1932 and 1933. The content of S.'s works, not devoid of elements of mechanismism in previous stages, has recently developed in a dialectical-materialistic direction. During the years of the revolution, S. has constantly taken an active part in public work. He is one of the founders of the Higher Medical School in Moscow (1919) and its rector (1923-24), member of the Moscow Soviet (1923-30), member of GUS (1922-33), member of the presidium of the Scientific Medical Council, member of the board of the Society of Neuropathologists and Psychiatrists, member of the editorial board of the journal 'Soviet Psychoneurology' and participant in a number of public organizations. Since 1930, S. is a candidate of the VKP(b).