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John O’Keefe
John O'Keefe, born 1939, is a British-American neuroscientist at University College London who discovered hippocampal place cells and won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
John P. Adelman
John P. Adelman is a neuroscientist at the Vollum Institute in Portland, Oregon, who cloned the SK potassium channel family and showed calmodulin gates them.
John P. O’Doherty
John P. O'Doherty is a cognitive neuroscientist who studies the neural basis of reward-related learning and decision making, and is the Fletcher Jones Professor of Decision Neuroscience at Caltech.
John R. Carlson
John R. Carlson is an American molecular neuroscientist and Eugene Higgins Professor at Yale, known for discovering the first insect odor and taste receptors and mapping how they encode smell.
John R. Huguenard
John R. Huguenard is a Professor of Neurology at Stanford University who studies thalamocortical synchrony and epilepsy, known for a 1999 Science paper showing thalamic inhibition restrains network synchrony.
John R. Lukens
John R. Lukens, also known as John Lukens, is a neuroscientist and professor at the University of Virginia who studies how microglia drive neurodegenerative disease.
John Roder
John C. Roder (1950–2018) was a Canadian immunologist turned neurobiologist, a Senior Scientist at Toronto's Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute and University of Toronto professor, known for mouse models of schizophrenia and memory.
John Smythies
John Smythies, also known as J. R. Smythies, was a British psychiatrist and neuroscientist who co-proposed the transmethylation hypothesis of schizophrenia in 1952 and did early psychedelic research.
John W. Holaday
John W. Holaday (1945–2019) was an American neuropharmacologist and Army researcher who showed that endorphins contribute to shock and spinal cord injury, and later co-founded Medicis, EntreMed, and MaxCyte.
John W. Olney
John W. Olney (died 2015) was an American psychiatrist and neuropathologist at Washington University in St. Louis who originated excitotoxicity, the death of nerve cells from excess glutamate.
John Zachary Young
John Zachary Young, known as J. Z. Young, was a British zoologist and neurophysiologist who rediscovered the squid giant axon and pioneered the octopus for memory research.
Johnatan Aljadeff
Johnatan (Yonatan) Aljadeff is a computational neuroscientist who has been on the UC San Diego neurobiology faculty since 2020, applying dynamical systems and information theory to synaptic plasticity and learning.
Jon Driver
Jon Driver, fully Jonathon Stevens Driver (1962–2011), was a British psychologist and cognitive neuroscientist at University College London, a leading researcher on visual neglect and multisensory integration.
Jon H. Kaas
Jon H. Kaas, born 1937 in Fargo, North Dakota, is an American neuroscientist at Vanderbilt University known for comparative mapping of sensory and motor cortex in primates.
Jonah R. Chan
Jonah R. Chan is an American neuroscientist at UCSF who developed the screening platform behind the first drug shown to promote remyelination in multiple sclerosis.
Jonathan A. Raper
Jonathan A. Raper is a developmental neuroscientist and Emeritus Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania, known for identifying collapsin, later classed among the semaphorins.
Jonathan Ashmore
Jonathan Ashmore, born in 1948, is a neuroscientist and the Bernard Katz Professor of Biophysics at University College London, known for his work on cochlear outer hair cells and the cochlear amplifier.
Jonathan D. Cohen
Jonathan D. Cohen is an American cognitive neuroscientist, the Robert Bendheim and Lynn Bendheim Thoman Professor at Princeton University and a founding co-director of the Princeton Neuroscience Institute.
Jong-Cheol Rah
Jong-Cheol Rah is a South Korean neuroscientist at the Korea Brain Research Institute in Daegu, known for his 2008 study of syntaxin-1 and synaptic vesicle fusion.
Joni D. Wallis
Joni D. Wallis is a neuroscientist and professor at UC Berkeley who directs the Wallis Lab, known for work on decision-making, reward, and abstract rule encoding in the prefrontal cortex.
Joonyeol Lee
Joonyeol Lee is a South Korean neuroscientist who studies how the brain combines prior expectations with noisy sensory data to guide movement, using smooth pursuit eye movements.
Jordan Grafman
Jordan Grafman is an American cognitive neuroscientist who has led the Vietnam Head Injury Study since 1990 and studies the brain bases of belief, including religious belief.
José López‐Barneo
José López-Barneo, born 1952, is a Spanish physiologist and neuroscientist at the Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla known for work on oxygen sensing and neurodegeneration.
Josef Anrather
Josef Anrather is an Austrian-trained neuroimmunologist, Professor of Neuroscience at Weill Cornell Medicine's Brain and Mind Research Institute, known for research on inflammation after ischemic stroke.
Josef P. Rauschecker
Josef P. Rauschecker is a cognitive neuroscientist and Professor of Neuroscience at Georgetown University since 1995, known for the dual-stream "what" and "where" model of auditory processing.
Josef Parvizi
Josef Parvizi is a Norwegian-trained neurologist and cognitive neuroscientist at Stanford University who studies the human brain by recording from and stimulating it directly in neurosurgical patients.
Josep Dalmau
Josep Dalmau, born 1953, is a Spanish neurologist and neuroimmunology researcher at Hospital Clínic de Barcelona and the University of Pennsylvania who discovered anti-NMDA-receptor encephalitis and described most known autoimmune encephalitides.
Joseph A. Gogos
Joseph A. Gogos is a physician-scientist and professor at Columbia University who studies the molecular genetics and neural circuit mechanisms of schizophrenia and 22q11.2 deletion syndrome, a chromosomal microdeletion carrying high risk of the disorder.
Joseph Altman
Joseph Altman (1925–2016) was an American biologist at MIT who showed in the early 1960s that new neurons form in adult mammalian brains, overturning decades of dogma.
Joseph D. Buxbaum
Joseph D. Buxbaum is a molecular neuroscientist and geneticist who directs the Seaver Autism Center at Mount Sinai and studies the genetic basis of autism and schizophrenia.