Vladimir Mikhailovich Bekhterev (1857–1927) is the greatest Russian neurologist, the discoverer of a number of brain formations, symptoms and syndromes in neuropathology and psychiatry. Academician Bekhterev wrote extraordinary scientific works, which for some time were not available to a wide range of readers. His original texts were kept only in the collections of central libraries. Today we are trying to restore justice by publishing the most interesting works of scientific genius. You will learn many amazing stories about brain research, interesting experiments with consciousness, and get acquainted with the scientist’s observations of changes in thinking depending on the external and internal circumstances of a person’s life.