Tatyana B. Glezerman received her M.D. and Ph.D. from Kursk State Medical Institute, USSR, in 1970. She had worked at Moscow Psychiatric Research Institute, first, as the Clinical Researcher in the Laboratory of Psychiatric Genetics, and, then, as the Chief of Neuropsychiatric and Neuropsychological Section in the Child Psychiatry Department. She has published two books, Brain Dysfunctions in Children, (Nauka, Academy of Science, 1983); and Psychophysiological Basis for Intellect Impairment in Aphasia: Aphasia and Intellect (Nauka, Academy of Science, 1986). Dr. Glezerman came to the United States in 1989. She requalified as an M.D. and completed her psychiatry residency at Albany Medical College in 1997. In 1999, she published (with Dr.Balkoski) the book Language, Thought, and the Brain (Kluwer Academic Publishers). Her other publications and presentations include: About Cerebral Organization of Word Meaning (Center for Study of Language and Information, Stanford University, 1990); Neuropsychiatric Model of Self (X World Congress of Psychiatry, Madrid, Spain, 1996); The Right Hemisphere and Autistic Talent: A Special State of Consciousness (VII Conference of Association of Scientific Study of Consciousness, Antwerp, Belgium, 2004). Dr. Glezerman served as a manuscript reviewer for the journal Brain and Cognition. In 2001, Dr. Glezerman joined the faculty of Mount Sinai School of Medicine, where she served as the Unit Chief at the Department of Psychiatry. She is actively involved in teaching. Her lecture course Neurophenomenology of Major Psychiatric Disorders is very popular among psychiatric residents. She received 2005 MSSM Teacher of the Year Award; 2009 MSSM Residency Education Recognition Award.