Background
Bechtereva, Natalia Petrovna was born on July 7, 1924 in St. Petersburg, Russia. Daughter of Piotr Vladimirovich and Zinaida Vasilievna (Pospelova) Bechtereva.
physiologist research institute researcher
Bechtereva, Natalia Petrovna was born on July 7, 1924 in St. Petersburg, Russia. Daughter of Piotr Vladimirovich and Zinaida Vasilievna (Pospelova) Bechtereva.
Doctor of Medicine, 1st State Medical High School, Leningrad, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, 1947. Doctor of Philosophy in Biology, Pavlov Institute Physiology, Leningrad, 1951. Doctor of Science in Medicine, Institute Experimental Medicine, Leningrad, 1959.
Junior research fellow Institute Experimental Medicine, 1950-1954, head human neurophysiology department deputy director, then director, 1962-1990. Senior research fellow, head physiology laboratory Polenov State Neurosurg. Institute, Leningrad, 1954-1962, deputy director, 1960-1962.
Science director, head Laboratory Neurophysiology of Thinking and Consciousness, St. Petersburg, since 1990. Science director Human Brain Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, R, since 1994.
Author: Neurophysiological Aspects of Human Mental Activity, 1974, second edition, translation into English), 1978, Normal and Diseased Human Brain, 1980 (translation into Spanish 1984), On the Human Brain, 1994, On the Human Brain: 20th Century and Its Last Decade in Human Brain Science (in Russian and English), 1997.
Member Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Supreme Soviet, Moscow, 1970-1974, 89-91. Member Russian Academy of Sciences (Bechterev gold medal 1997), Russian Academy Medical Sciences, International Academy Geology, Human and Nature Protection Sciences, Austrian Academy of Sciences (foreign), Finnish Academy of Sciences (foreign), American Academy Medicine and Psychiatry (foreign).
Married Ivan Ilyich Kashtelian (deceased 1990). 1 child, Medvedev Sviatoslav.