Jan Bureš#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 1304 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 1992 |
| Main Country of Residence: | CZECH REPUBLIC |
Jan Bureš passed away August 24, 2012.
Positions Held
- 1952 Institute of Physiology, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences
Fields of Scholarship
- Reversible ablation technique by programmatic analysis of the morphological, physiological, and behavioral effects of spreading depression
- Neurophysiology of vertebrate learning, adopting an integrative and systems-level approach to the analysis of animal cognition
Honours and Awards
- 1964 - 1979 Central Council of the International Brain Research Organization
- 1992 - 1998 Governing Council of the International Brain Research Organization
- 1992 - 1996 Council of the European Neuroscience Association
- 1992 Member of Academia Europea
- 1992 Honorary Doctorate, University of Lethbridge, Canada
- 1995 Foreign Associate, National Academy of Sciences, USA
- 2000 Foreign Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences
- 2000 Honorary Member of European Brain and Behavior Society
- 2001 Honorary J. E. Purkynje Medal, Czech Academy of Sciences
