- Jean-Martin Charcot
Jean-Martin Charcot was a French neurologist and professor of anatomical pathology. His work greatly impacted the developing fields of neurology and psychology. He was nicknamed "the Napoleon of the neuroses".
- Rudolf Magnus
Rudolf Magnus (Brunswick, September 2, 1873 - Switzerland, 1927), was a German pharmacologist and physiologist. He studied medicine, specialising in pharmacology, in Heidelberg, where he became associate professor of pharmacology in 1904. In 1908 he became the first professor of pharmacology in Utrecht, where he spent the rest of his working life. He was nominated for a Nobel prize, but died before it could be awarded.
- Thomas Willis
Thomas Willis was an English doctor who played an important part in the history of the science of anatomy, neurology and psychiatry. He was a co-founder of the Royal Society (1662). Born in Great Bedwyn, Wiltshire, Willis worked as a physician in Westminster, London, and from 1660 until his death was Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy at Oxford. He was a pioneer in research into the anatomy of the brain, nervous system and muscles.
- Alvaro Pascual-Leone
Alvaro Pascual-Leone (born 7 August 1961 Valencia, Spain) is a professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School, with which he has been affiliated since 1997. He is the Director of the Berenson-Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation and Associate Director of the General Clinical Research Center of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. Dr.
- Stanley B. Prusiner
Stanley Ben Prusiner (born May 28, 1942) is an American neurologist and biochemist. Currently the director of the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), Prusiner discovered prions, a class of infectious self-reproducing pathogens solely composed of protein. For his prion research he received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1994 and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1997.
- Pierre Marie
Pierre Marie was a French neurologist, who began his medical career in 1878 as an assistant to the famous neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-1893) at the Salpêtrière and Bicêtre Hospitals in Paris. One of his earliest contributions was the description of a disorder of the pituitary gland known as acromegaly. His analysis of the disease was considered a pioneer contribution to a field of medicine later to be known as endocrinology.
- Viktor Frankl
Viktor Emil Frankl, M.D., Ph.D., (March 26, 1905 - September 2, 1997) was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist as well as a Holocaust survivor. Frankl was the founder of logotherapy and Existential Analysis, the "Third Viennese School" of psychotherapy. His book "Man's Search for Meaning" (first published in 1946) chronicles his experiences as a concentration camp inmate and describes his psychotherapeutic method of finding meaning in all forms of existence, …
- Peter Calabresi
Peter Calabresi is Director of the Johns Hopkins Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Center and an Associate Professor of Neurology. Calabresi was recently awarded a five-year MS center grant from the National MS Society for the study of mechanisms of neurodegeneration and strategies for neuroprotection in MS.
- Rita Levi-Montalcini
Rita Levi-Montalcini (born April 22, 1909) is an Italian neurologist who, together with colleague Stanley Cohen, received the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discovery of growth factors. Today she is the oldest living Nobel laureate.
- Gary Schwartz
Gary E. Schwartz, Ph.D., is a professor of Psychology teaching courses in psychology in the departments of Medicine, Neurology, Psychiatry, and Surgery at the University of Arizona. He is also the Director of The VERITAS Research Program of the Human Energy Systems Laboratory in the Department of Psychology at the University of Arizona. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University. Dr. Schwartz is the co-author of "The Living Energy Universe", …
- Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Vilayanur S. "Rama" Ramachandran (born 1951) is a neurologist best known for his work in the fields of behavioral neurology and psychophysics. He received a degree in medicine from Stanley Medical College in Madras, India, and later, a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. He is currently a professor of psychology and neuroscience at University of California, San Diego, the director of the Center for Brain and Cognition, and scientific advisor to the Beckley Foundation.
- Stefan M. Pulst
Stefan M. Pulst is a neurologist/neurogeneticist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and professor of medicine and neurobiology at UCLA. He is chair of the science committee of the American Academy of Neurology. His research involves ataxia and other genetic conditions that affect the nervous system. Pulst, Stefan M.
- David Snowdon
David A. Snowdon(1952 –) is an epidemiologist and professor of neurology at the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging at the University of Kentucky. His research interests include antioxidants and aging, and the neuropathology of Alzheimer's disease, especially predictive factors in early life and the role of brain infarction. He is the director of the Nun Study, …
- Christine van Broeckhoven
Christine Van Broeckhoven (b. April 9, 1953-) is a Belgian molecular biologist and professor in Molecular genetics at the University of Antwerp (Antwerp, Belgium). She is also leading the VIB Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Antwerp of the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB). Christine Van Broeckhoven does research on Alzheimer dementia, bipolar mental disorders and other neurological diseases.
- Anthony Peake
Anthony Peake (1954 -) has suggested a new and radically different explanation as to what happens to human consciousness at the point of death. This theory, which he terms "Cheating the Ferryman" was first published in the International Journal of Near Death Studies in 2004. The theory involves a review of the latest theories of quantum mechanics, …
- William Langston
Dr. J. William Langston is the founder, CEO, and Scientific Director of the Parkinson's Institute. He is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Medicine and was formerly a faculty member at Stanford University and chairman of neurology at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose, California. Dr. Langston has authored or co-authored over 250 professional publications in the field of neurology, most of which are on Parkinson's disease and related disorders.
- Silas Weir Mitchell
Silas Weir Mitchell was an American physician and writer. He was son of a physician, John Kearsley Mitchell (1798–1858), and was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He studied at the University of Pennsylvania in that city, and received the degree of M.D. at Jefferson Medical College in 1850. During the Civil War he had charge of nervous injuries and maladies at Turners Lane Hospital, Philadelphia, and at the close of the war became a specialist in neurology.
- Kevin Campbell
Kevin P. Campbell, Ph.D. is an Investigator for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, UI Foundation Distinguished Professor, the Roy J. Carver Chair of Physiology and Biophysics, and head of the department; and professor of neurology and internal medicine at the University of Iowa.
- Deborah Mash
Dr. Deborah Mash is an American professor of neurology and molecular and cellular pharmacology at the University of Miami School of Medicine and director of the university's Brain Endowment Bank. She is one of the world's foremost scientific experts on the hallucinogenic drug, ibogaine. Dr. Mash is a member of the scientific advisory board for the Life Extension Foundation, located in Florida.
- Ugo Cerletti
Ugo Cerletti (September 26, 1877 - July 25, 1963) was an Italian neurologist who discovered the method of electroconvulsive therapy in psychiatry.
- MacDonald Critchley
MacDonald Critchley (born February 2, 1900; died October 15 1997) was a British neurologist. He was former president of the World Federation of Neurology, and the author of over 200 published articles on neurology and 20 books, including "The Parietal Lobes" (1953), "Aphasiology", and biographies of James Parkinson and Sir William Gowers. MacDonald Critchley was educated in Bristol and received his medical degree there.
- Roger Bannister
Sir Roger Gilbert Bannister CBE (born March 23, 1929) is a British former athlete best known as the first man to run the mile in less than 4 minutes. Bannister became a distinguished neurologist and Master of Pembroke College, Oxford retiring in 2001. He was born in Harrow, London.
- Uffe Ravnskov
Uffe Ravnskov, MD, PhD, (born 1934) is a Danish independent researcher, a member of various international scientific organisations, and a former private medical practitioner in Sweden. In recent years he has gained international recognition for his research into numerous scientific studies, leading to the publication of a book which stated that the widely popularised Lipid Hypothesis is scientifically invalid.
- William Mitchell
Sir William Mitchell was Professor of English Language, Literature and Mental and Moral Philosophy at the University of Adelaide from 1894–1922, Vice-Chancellor 1916–1942 and Chancellor 1942–1948. Mitchell wrote about issues overlapping philosophy of mind and science, neurology, quantum theory and philosophical psychology. His work is the subject of a book by W. Martin Davies, "The philosophy of Sir William Mitchell, …
- James H. Austin
James H. Austin is Clinical Professor of Neurology, University of Missouri Health Science Center, and Emeritus Professor of Neurology, University of Colorado Health Science Center. Austin is the author of his well known book "Zen and the Brain", which aims to establish links between the neurological workings of the human brain and meditation. Austin has recently written a sequel to it, "Zen-Brain Reflections", published in February, 2006.
- Georges Gilles de la Tourette
Georges Albert Édouard Brutus Gilles de la Tourette (October 30 1857 in Saint-Gervais-les-Trois-Clochers near Poitou, France — May 26, 1904 in Lausanne, Switzerland) was a French neurologist who is the eponym of Tourette syndrome, a neurological condition. In 1873 Tourette began medical studies at Poitiers. He later moved to Paris where he became a student, amanuensis and house physician of his mentor, the influential contemporary neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot, …
- Susan Perlman
Dr. Susan Perlman is a Professor in the Department of Neurology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. She is also Director of Ataxia and Neurogenetics Program and Post-polio Program at that school. She has long been the primary investigator for Friedreich's ataxia trials and sits on the Medical Advisory Board of the National Ataxia Foundation. Dr.
- George A. Ricaurte
George A. Ricaurte is a controversial neurology researcher who works at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in the Department of Neurology. He received his MD from Northwestern University Medical School and his Ph.D. (Pharmacology) from the University of Chicago. His research focuses on Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders. His work centers on amphetamine-type stimulants and their potential to damage brain monoamine-containing neurons.
- William Alanson White
William Alanson White (1870-1937) was an American neurologist and alienist. He was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., studied at Cornell from 1885 to 1889, and two years later graduated from the Long Island College Hospital. For nine years he was an assistant physician at the Binghamton (N. Y.) State Hospital, and from 1903 superintendent of the Government Hospital for the Insane at Washington.
- Ruben Kuzniecky
Dr. Kuzniecky is Professor of Neurology at New York University School of Medicine and Co-Director of the NYU Epilepsy Center. He is a member of the American Neurological Association, the American Academy of Neurology, the American Epilepsy Society, among many others. He was awarded the Distinguished Scholar Award at the 2003 Hans Berger Symposium, for his work on malformations of brain development in epilepsy.
- Arthur L. Benton
Arthur Lester Benton, Ph.D., (October 16, 1909 - December 27, 2006) was a neuropsychologist and Emeritus Professor of Neurology and Psychology at the University of Iowa. He received his A.B. from Oberlin College in 1931, his A.M. from Oberlin College in 1933 and his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1935. He established a Neuropsychology Laboratory in the Neurology Department at the University of Iowa School of Medicine in the 1940s; the lab remains and now bears his name.
- Joseph Collins
Joseph Collins (1866-1950) was an American neurologist, born in Brookfield, Conn. He received the degree of M.D. from New York University in 1888, and after some years of private practice took up the specialty of neurology; in 1907, he was made a professor of that subject in the New York Post-Graduate Medical School. He was later a co-founder and visiting physician to the New York Neurological Institute. In addition to his attainment as a practitioner of medicine, Dr.
- Ley Sander
Josemir W. Sander, also known as Ley Sander, is the NSE Professor of Neurology and Clinical Epilepsy at the Institute of Neurology of University College London. He is Honorary Consultant Neurologist at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London, and at the National Society for Epilepsy in Buckinghamshire. Ley Sander is Head of the World Health Organization Collaborative Centre for Research and Training in Neurosciences, …
- Korbinian Brodmann
Korbinian Brodmann (November 17, 1868 - August 22, 1918) was a German neurologist who became famous for his definition of the cerebral cortex into 52 distinct regions from their cytoarchitectonic (histological) characteristics. These areas are now usually referred to as Brodmann areas. Some of these areas were later associated to nervous functions, such as areas 41 and 42 in the temporal lobe (related to hearing), …
- Roberta Bondar
Roberta Bondar , a medical doctor and Ph.D. in neurobiology, became the first Canadian woman astronaut and the world's first neurologist in space in 1992 on the International Microgravity Laboratory. She was elected to the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame for her pioneering space medical research.
- William G. Lennox
William Gordon Lennox was an American neurologist who was a pioneer in the use of electroencephalography (EEG) for the diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy. Lennox first became interested in epilepsy when working as medical missionary in China.. At the Harvard Medical School, he worked alongside and published many papers with Stanley Cobb and Erna and Frederic Gibbs. Lennox was president of the International League Against Epilepsy from 1935 to 1946.
- Morton Prince
Morton Henry Prince (December 21, 1854 - August 31, 1929). American neurologist. Morton Prince was an American physician who specialized in neurology and abnormal psychology, and was leading force in establishing psychology as a clinical and academic discipline. He was part of a handful of men who disseminated European ideas about psychopathology, especially in understanding dissociative phenomenon. He was one of the founders of the Journal of Abnormal Psychology in 1906, …
- G.E. Berrios
German E. Berrios is a Professor of Psychiatry at Cambridge University in the UK. He was born in Tacna (Perú) and studied medicine and philosophy at the University of San Marcos (Lima, Perú). Subsequently, he read psychology and philosophy at Corpus Christi College, Oxford University, where he was a scholar by examination. He did postgraduate work in the history and philosophy of science at the same university under Charles Webster (medical historian), …
- Pearce Bailey
Pearce Bailey (1865-1922) was an American neurologist and psychiatrist, educated at Princeton and Columbia Universities. He became a consultant in several New York hospitals and with Collins and Frankel founded the Neurological Institute. He was also appointed an associate professor of neurology in Columbia.
- Donald Calne
Donald Brian Calne (born 1936) is a Canadian neurologist who is a leading Parkinson's disease researcher. He was the first researcher who used synthetic dopamine to treat Parkinson's disease. He has shown that latent damage occurs in the brain even before the symptoms of Parkinson's disease appears. Born in London, England, he received his Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science and Doctor of Medicine degrees from Oxford University.