Researchers in neuroscience

Alexander Forbes (neurophysiologist)

Alexander Forbes (1882–1965) was an American neurophysiologist at Harvard Medical School, a leader in early American electrophysiology who established the all-or-none law of nerve conduction and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1936.

Alexander Thiele

Alexander Thiele is a cognitive neuroscientist and Professor of Visual Neuroscience at Newcastle University who studies how acetylcholine and other neuromodulators shape visual attention in primate cortex.

Alexandra Dürr

Alexandra Dürr is a French professor of medical genetics and neurologist at Sorbonne Université and the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris, specializing in hereditary ataxias and Huntington's disease.

Alfredo Fontanini

Alfredo Fontanini is an Italian-trained systems neuroscientist, Professor and Chair of Neurobiology and Behavior at Stony Brook University, who studies how expectation shapes cortical taste processing.

Alfredo Kirkwood

Alfredo Kirkwood is a Chilean-trained neuroscientist, professor at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, known for mid-1990s Nature papers giving direct experimental support for BCM theory in visual cortex.

Ali Ertürk

Ali Ertürk is a neuroscientist who directs the Institute for Intelligent Biotechnologies at Helmholtz Munich and is known for tissue-clearing technologies, including 3DISCO and SHANEL, that make intact organs transparent for 3D imaging.

Alice A Robie

Alice A. Robie is a neuroscientist at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus, trained at Brandeis and Caltech, known for machine-vision fly behavior tools and mapping the fruit fly circuits that turn learned valence into action.

Alison M. Goate

Alison M. Goate, also known as Alison Goate, is a geneticist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai who reported the first inherited Alzheimer's disease mutation in 1991.

Alison R. Mercer

Alison R. Mercer is a New Zealand neuroethologist at the University of Otago known for her research on the honey bee brain and queen pheromones.

Aljoscha Nern

Aljoscha Nern is a Drosophila neuroscientist at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus, where he works in the Rubin Lab mapping fly visual circuits, from a 2013 medulla connectome to the 2025 optic lobe connectome.

Alla Y. Karpova

Alla Y. Karpova is a systems neuroscientist who has been a group leader at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus since 2006, studying how rat frontal cortical circuits support flexible behavior.

Allan I. Basbaum

Allan I. Basbaum is a Canadian-born pain neuroscientist and anatomist who has chaired the Department of Anatomy at UCSF since 1997, studying chronic pain and itch.

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Allan Jones (neuroscientist)

Allan Jones is an American neuroscientist and genomics executive who was a founding employee and the first CEO of the Allen Institute for Brain Science.

Alon Chen

Alon Chen (אלון חן) is an Israeli neuroscientist who studies the neurobiology of stress and became the 11th President of the Weizmann Institute of Science in 2019.

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Alona Fyshe

Alona Fyshe is a Canadian computational neuroscientist and machine learning researcher at the University of Alberta who compares brain recordings of readers with language models.

Alun Millward Davies

Alun Millward Davies, publishing as Alun M. Davies, is a developmental neuroscientist at Cardiff University known for work on neurotrophic factors and nerve cell survival.

Alvaro Pascual-Leone

Alvaro Pascual-Leone is a cognitive neurologist and Harvard Medical School professor who pioneered transcranial magnetic stimulation as a research tool and studies cortical plasticity and dementia.

Alysson R. Muotri

Alysson R. Muotri is a developmental neuroscientist and professor at UC San Diego School of Medicine, known for work on L1 retrotransposition, stem-cell disease modeling, and brain organoids.

Amiram Grinvald

Amiram Grinvald (אמירם גרינוולד; 1945–2021) was an Israeli neurobiologist at the Weizmann Institute who pioneered optical imaging of brain activity, coining the term in 1984.

Amita Sehgal

Amita Sehgal is an Indian-born American chronobiologist and neuroscientist at the University of Pennsylvania who co-discovered the clock gene timeless and developed fruit flies as a model for sleep.

Amy F.T. Arnsten

Amy F.T. Arnsten is a Yale neurobiologist who studies the molecular mechanisms regulating the prefrontal cortex, work that produced guanfacine for ADHD and prazosin for PTSD.

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Amy L. Milton

Amy L. Milton is a behavioral neuroscientist and University Professor at the University of Cambridge whose research on memory reconsolidation aims to treat PTSD and substance use disorder.

Ana Martín-Villalba

Ana Martín-Villalba (born 1971) is a Spanish-born physician who has headed the Division of Molecular Neurobiology at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg since 2011.

Anand Swaroop

Anand Swaroop is a vision researcher who discovered the NRL gene and serves as Chief of the Neurobiology-Neurodegeneration and Repair Laboratory at the National Eye Institute, NIH.

Anatol C. Kreitzer

Anatol C. Kreitzer is an American neuroscientist known for work on basal ganglia circuits and optogenetics in Parkinson's disease models, formerly a professor at UCSF and the Gladstone Institutes.

Anders Björklund

Anders Björklund, born 1945, is a Swedish neuroscientist at Lund University known for pioneering cell transplantation and gene-transfer approaches to brain repair, above all dopamine cell replacement in Parkinson's disease.

Andrea Volterra

Andrea Volterra is a neuroscientist and pharmacologist, honorary professor at the University of Lausanne and Wyss Center visiting faculty, known for discovering calcium-dependent glutamate release from astrocytes in 1997.

Andreas Lüthi

Andreas Lüthi is a Swiss neuroscientist and Senior Group Leader at the Friedrich Miescher Institute in Basel, known for identifying amygdala inhibitory circuits that control fear memory.

Andres Lozano

Andrés M. Lozano is a Spanish-born neurosurgeon at the University of Toronto and University Health Network known for pioneering deep brain stimulation for depression, anorexia, and Alzheimer's disease.