Ivan Pigarev
Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Biography
Ivan Pigarev, electrophysiologist, graduated from biological department of Moscow State University in 1963. Since that time till the present he is working in the Institute for Information Transmission problems (Kharkevich Institute) of Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, at present as leading scientist. His studies were mainly concentrated in the field of vision. Since 1991 Pigarev began to investigate sleep. He proposed and confirmed by direct experiments the visceral theory of sleep according to which cortical sensory areas during sleep switch to processing of the visceral information thus supporting animal homeostasis. Pigarev has published more than 90 papers.