Ph.D., professor, correspondent member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, and honored figure of science of the USSR
Hasratyan was born on May 31, 1903, in Metsik village, Mush, Bitlis province, Western Armenia. In 1926, first, he graduated from YSU's agricultural faculty and then medical faculty in 1930. From 1930 to 1938 was a senior researcher at the Institute of Physiology of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), from 1935 to 1941: Head of the Central Nervous System Department of the V. Bekhterev Brain Institute, at the same time head of the Physiology Department of the Pedagogical Institute. From 1941-1943, Hasratyan lectured at the Tashkent Medical Institute. From 1944-1950, he headed the laboratory of compensatory devices of the nervous system of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. From 1950-1952, Hasratyan was the director of the Moscow Institute of Higher Nervous Activity, from 1953-1960, he was the head of the Laboratory of the Institute of Physiology of the USSR Academy of Sciences, from 1950-1960, he was also the head of the Department of Physiology of the 2nd Moscow Medical Institute. Since 1960, Hasratyan worked as the director of the Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology and the head of the Laboratory of Conditioned Reflexes.
In 1936, he became Ph.D., and in 1938, Hasratyan became a professor. In 1939, he was elected a correspondent member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, and in 1947 - an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. He was engaged in the study of higher nervous activity, and his research on the adaptive plasticity of the nervous system received worldwide recognition. He established the healing and protective role of the inhibition process and developed a new method of diagnosis and treatment of trauma, burns, and heat shock.
The anti-shock fluids Hasratyan proposed were widely used during the Great Patriotic War. He has made a great contribution to the training of physiologists and the development of physiology in Armenia.
He is the author of "Physiology of the Central Nervous System" (M., 1953), "Physiology of Higher Nervous Activity" (Yerevan, 1966), "Essays on Physiological Conditioned Reflexes" (M., 1970), "Reflex Theory of Higher Nervous Activity" (M. ., 1983) monographs, and the collection of articles "Current problems of conditional-reflex activity" (Yerevan, 1988). Hasratyan was the editor-in-chief of "The Journal of the Highest Nervous Activity after Academician Pavlov", as well as a member of editorial boards of foreign scientific journals. From 1972-1981, Hasratyan was the president of "Intermozg" an international scientific organization.
In 1974, he became an honored figure of science of the ASSR.
Hasratyan was awarded the orders of Lenin (2), Red Banner of Labor, and Red Star. In 1963, he received a Gold medal after I. Pavlov, and in 1975, the Purkyně medal.
Hasratyan passed away on April 24, 1981, in Moscow.
