The usefulness of psychophysiology in the maintenance of cognitive life.

In connection with the 14th World Congress of Psychophysiology--the Olympics of the Brain--IOP2008, held in my native Sankt-Petersburg, I am happy to state that the conceptualization of Psychophysiology as forming the objective scientific bases upon which the investigation and understanding of human cognitive and emotional processes became possible, was born in this country in 1886, under the wise leadership and personal initiatives of my Grandfather, the great Vladimir Michailovich Bechterev, whose contribution in the Experimental and Clinical Psychophysiology and Human Brain Sciences have been invaluable. The purpose of my present essay is to share with you some of my views and thoughts about the importance of Psychophysiology for the maintenance of daily intellectual life from childhood to adulthood and through the aging process.