Prof. Dr. Natalia Gulyaeva attended Moscow State University (Biological Faculty), where she received her MS in 1974 and PhD in 1978 (Biochemistry). In 1978 she received a researcher position at the Institute of Higher Nervous Activity  & Neurophysiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, where she founded the Department of Functional Biochemistry of the Nervous System in 1992. Dr. Gulyaeva defended her DSc Thesis in 1989 (Pathophysiology) and received her Professor degree in 1997 (Neurophysiology). She was a visiting scientist at Rutgers University in the USA and Ottawa University in Canada. She has steadily founded her research with grants from various national and international foundations. She is the Co-Editor of Neurochemical Journal; Deputy Editor of the Journal of Higher Nervous Activity; Handling Editor of the Journal of Neurochemistry; Member of the Editorial Board of Neurochemical Research and Metabolic Brain Disease; Secretary of the Russian Society for Neurochemistry and a Member of the International Academy of Science (IAS).