Natalia Bekhtereva

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Natalia Bekhtereva
Наталья Петровна Бехтерева
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Born(1924-07-07)7 July 1924
Leningrad, USSR
Died22 June 2008(2008-06-22) (aged 83)
Hamburg, Germany
Alma materFirst Pavlov State Medical University of St. Peterburg

Natalia Petrovna Bekhtereva (Russian: Ната́лья Петро́вна Бе́хтерева; 7 July 1924 – 22 June 2008) was a Soviet and Russian neuroscientist and psychologist who developed neurophysiological approaches to psychology, such as measuring the impulse activity of human neurons. She was a participant in the documentary films The Call of the Abyss (Russian: Зов бездны) and Storm of Consciousness (Russian: Штурм сознания), which aroused wide public interest.

Biography

She is Vladimir Bekhterev's granddaughter. In the summer of 1941, she entered the First Pavlov State Medical University of St. Petersburg (More than 700 students entered the institute; by the end of the training, only 4 graduates survived). She survived the Siege of Leningrad and in 1959 she became a Doctor of Medicine. She rose to become Director of the Soviet Institute for Experimental Medicine, which she administrated between 1970 and 1990. She worked as editor-in-chief of the academic journals Human Physiology (1975–1987) and International Journal of Psychophysiology (1984–1994). She was the founder of the Institute for Human Brain, operating under the auspices of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, of which she was elected a member in 1981.

She was awarded the Order of Lenin in 1984 and the USSR State Prize for 1985. In 1972, she was also awarded the Wiener Medal in Cybernetics by the American Society for Cybernetics.

Tribute

On July 7, 2020, Google celebrated her 96th birthday with a Google Doodle.[1]

Publications

Bekhtereva published more than 360 works, some of them in English, including:

  • 1962. Biopotentials of Cerebral Hemispheres in Brain Tumors.
  • 1978. Neurophysiological Aspects of Human Mental Activity.
  • 1981. Psychophysiology Today and Tomorrow. (editor).

Documentary films with her participation

  • Зов бездны[2] (The Call of the Abyss); (in Russian)
  • Штурм сознания. Громкое дело[3] (Storm of Consciousness High-profile case). (in Russian)

See also

References

  • "Наталья Бехтерева — какой мы её знали {сборник эссе, очерков}", под общей редакцией С. В. Медведева, г. Москва, издательство "АСТ", г. Санкт-Петербург, Сова, 2009 г. – 256 с.: иллюстрации; 16 с. ISBN 978-5-17-060803-4 (in Russian)

Notes

  1. ^ "Natalia Bekhtereva's 96th Birthday". Google. 7 July 2020.
  2. ^ "fіlm documentary The Call of the Abyss (Зов бездны, документальный фильм, 2009)" (in Russian).
  3. ^ "fіlm documentary Storm of consciousness (Громкое дело. Штурм сознания, документальный фильм, 2009)" (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2012-09-04. Retrieved 2013-03-18.

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