Curriculum Vitae - Matti Bergström

Matti Bergström, professor emeritus, University of Helsinki.

Education and Positions

• born 1st of March, 1922
• graduated from highschool in 1941
• Lic. Med. 1952 from University of Helsinki
• Dr. Med. 1957 from University of Helsinki
• Docent in physiology 1958 University of Helsinki
• Docent in bioelectronics 1968 Helsinki University of Technology
• postdoctoral training at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm and University of Marburg, West Germany
• Professor of physiology and head of institute of physiology, University of Helsinki 1963-1989
• Dean of the faculty of Medicine 1976-78
• member of Academia Scientiarum Fennica 1970
• member of World Academy of Art and Science 1988
• general scientific secretary of the International Academy of Science
• regional editor of Acta Physiologica Scandinavica and Psychobiology
• cofounder of the Societas Physiologica Finlandia, Biomedical-Technical Society in Finland (president)
• member and president of the Societas Gerentologica Fennica

Publications

Approximately 200 scientific publications.

Monographs

• On the Mind and the Physiology of Brain, WSOY 1978 (in Finnish)
• The Green Theory, WSOY, 1984
• Brain and Evolution, WSOY 1985 (in Finnish)
• Resources of the Brain - Appearance of Ideas, Seminarium 1990 (in Swedish)
• Child - the Last Slave, Seminarium 1991, Wahlström & Widstrand (1996) (in Swedish)
• The Green Theory, Wahlström & Widstrand 1993 (in Swedish)
• Neuropedagogics - a School for the Whole Brain, Wahlström & Widstrand 1995 (in Swedish)
• Black and White Play Activity of the Children, Wahlström & Widstrand 1997 (in Swedish)
• Brains in Politics, Wahlström & Widstrand 1999 (in Swedish)

Research field:

Sensory physiology (doctoral thesis), later on research on ontogenetic (including foetal development of central nervous system (motor and sensory systems, unit activity, EEG). Special topics: investigation of information transfer in neural systems, neuronal cell culture in vivo, computer simulation of neural transfer processes, thermodynamical models of the brain, theoretical models of the mind-brain problem, brain populations and chaos-order dipole models of brain. Analysis of problems concerning the education of echildren, development of creativity, brain's value capacity and problems of economics.

Numerous invited lectures on these and other subjects in Finland, Scandinavia and other countries.

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