Jan J. Trąbka (21 June 1931 – 27 July 2012) was a full professor of neurological and computer sciences at the Jagiellonian University Medical College. He went to the Faculty of Medicine of the Kraków Academy of Medicine and received his MD from the Academy of Medicine, Kraków in 1955 and defended his PhD in 1961, thesis entitled "Bioelectric activity of brain within the band 200-500 Hz", in 1964 he defended habilitation dissertation about electrophysiological image of asymmetry of brain hemispheres. Associate professor in 1977, in 1988 designed the full professor. Professor Trąbka has published over 500 publications within the fields of neurology, neurophysiology, neuropharmacology, medical informatics and neurocybernetics, including 15 books.
Work
1955-2002 - Kraków Academy of Medicine and Jagiellonian University Medical College 1974-1991 the head of the first in Poland Department of Medical Informatics, founded by himself. During the period of over 10 years (1991–2002), until retired, he had been a chairman of the Department of Biocybernetics of the Jagiellonian University Medical College 1959-1960 – Harvard University, Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, as Rockefeller Foundation fellow 1967-1968 - l'Institut Marey (Marey's Institute), Paris, neurophysiology 1968-1969 – Neurophysiologie Clinique, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière in Paris, French Academy of Science stipend 1970-1971 – Psychopharmacological Institute, Austrian Academic of Science , Wien, neuropsychopharmacology 1980 – Stony Brook University, New York, Senior Scientist 1985 - University of Los Angeles, Visiting professor sponsored by the Kosciusko Foundation 1985 - Harvard Medical School, Boston, Visiting professor sponsored by the Kosciusko Foundation
Memberships
president of the Main Board of the Polish Society of Clinical Neurophysiology, 1989–1993 president of the Committee of Neurological Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences, 1988–1993 member of the International Institute of Brain Research (IBRO/UNESCO), elected in 1980 member of the International Society for Neuroimaging in Psychiatry , since 1985 member of the European Society of Sleep Research, since 1989 corresponding member of Collegium Europaeum Jenense , since 1991
Contributions
His contributions include:
high frequency components in brain wave activity - bioelectric activity of brain within the band 200–500 Hz anatomopathological correlations with EEG records in the subdural hematoma electronystagmographic evaluation of the caloric nystagmus antiserotonin activity of 1-methyl-6-methoxy (1,2,3,4-tetrahydrocarboline) (MMTHC) the effect of 1-methyl-6-methoxy-1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-2-carboline (Adrenoglomerulotrophine - AGT) on the central nervous system 1-methyl-6-methoxy-1,2,3,4-tetrahydrocarboline (THC) and D-lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) influence on the evoked responses in the associative cortex of the cat brain determination of the synaptic action of the THC and -butyrolacton derivatives the Bezold-Brucke effect in the pattern of averaged auditory evoked responses in two formerly published books: "Brain vs Consciousness" (1983) and "Brain and Its Self" (1991) the author presented his conception of "cybernetic universalism"