text: Mechanisms of mental disorders were analyzed predominately from the position of the "physiology of superior nervous activity". At the same time, the role of the social and psychological factors in psychiatric problems was not totally ignored. \n\nThere's more to this article if you want to click on the link below. Basically covers a large scope of functions of the nervous system and mental illnesses such as schizophrenia etc... among the Hasidic Jews in Russia.