The achievements of the Institute of Neurology of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences over 50 years

: The historical review of the main research fields of Institute of Neurology of Rus. Acad. Med. Sci. from 1945 to nowadays is presented, some of them are: the investigations of both traumatic and infectious damages to nervous system, cerebrovascular pathology (angioneurology), neurogenetics, neuroreanimatology and neurosurgery (angioneurosurgery, in particular). The peculiarities of the development of approaches mentioned above as well as of corresponding problems are described in the review.