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Richard Mooney
Richard Mooney is an American neuroscientist at Duke University who studies how the brain learns vocal behavior, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2024.
Richard Morris (neuroscientist)
Richard G. M. Morris, born 1948, is a British neuroscientist at the University of Edinburgh, best known for the watermaze and for showing that NMDA receptors are required for learning.
Richard Sidman
Richard Leon Sidman (1928–2024) was an American neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School known for timing neuron birth and migration with autoradiography and for the staggerer mutant mouse.
Richard W. Aldrich
Richard W. Aldrich is an American neuroscientist and biophysicist who studies how ion channels open and close, known for the ball-and-chain model of potassium channel inactivation.
Richard W. Tsien
Richard W. Tsien is an American neuroscientist, emeritus professor at Stanford and Druckenmiller Professor at NYU, known for discovering and classifying voltage-gated calcium channels, including the N-type channel.
Riitta Hari
Riitta Hari, born 1948 in Mikkeli, Finland, is a Finnish cognitive neuroscientist who developed magnetoencephalography, a brain-imaging method tracking brain activity with millisecond timing, and pioneered two-person neuroscience.
Rita Levi-Montalcini
Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909–2012) was an Italian neurobiologist who discovered nerve growth factor, the first known neurotrophic factor, and shared the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Robert C. Malenka
Robert C. Malenka, also known as Robert Malenka, is an American psychiatrist and neuroscientist who studies synaptic plasticity and its roles in addiction, depression, and autism.
Robert D. Burgoyne
Robert D. Burgoyne is a neuroscientist and Emeritus Professor of Physiology at the University of Liverpool, known for his work on calcium-regulated exocytosis and neuronal calcium sensor proteins.
Robert D. Hawkins
Robert D. Hawkins is a Columbia University neuroscientist who studies the cellular mechanisms of learning and memory, known for work on nitric oxide in long-term potentiation.
Robert Desimone
Robert Desimone is a neuroscientist and director of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, known for the biased-competition model of visual attention and work linking attention to gamma-band neural synchrony.
Robert Fettiplace
Robert Fettiplace, born in 1946, is a British-born sensory neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who studies inner-ear hair cells and shared the 2018 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience.
Robert Froemke
Robert C. Froemke is an American systems neuroscientist and professor at NYU Grossman School of Medicine whose lab studies cortical plasticity, oxytocin, maternal behavior, and cochlear implants.
Robert Galambos
Robert Galambos was an American neuroscientist at UC San Diego known for proving bat echolocation in 1939, the 1961 glia-neural theory of brain function, and the auditory brainstem response test.
Robert H. Edwards
Robert H. Edwards is an American neuroscientist and physician at the University of California, San Francisco who identified the proteins that carry neurotransmitters into synaptic vesicles.
Robert H. Miller
Robert H. Miller, also published as Robert Harvey Miller, is a neuroscientist at George Washington University known for work on glial development and myelin repair.
Robert H. Wurtz
Robert H. Wurtz (born 1936) is an American visual neuroscientist and NIH distinguished investigator emeritus, known for recording single neurons in awake, behaving monkeys and for discovering a corollary discharge circuit.
Robert Johnston (developmental neurobiologist)
Robert J. Johnston is a developmental neurobiologist and Associate Professor of Biology at Johns Hopkins University, known for identifying the first microRNA involved in nervous system development.
Robert K. S. Wong
Robert K. S. Wong is a cellular and molecular neuroscientist and Distinguished Professor at SUNY Downstate, known for showing that a single hippocampal neuron can trigger synchronized population discharge.
Robert L. Macdonald
Robert L. Macdonald is an American neurologist and neuroscientist known for research on GABA_A receptor channels and genetic epilepsy, who chaired Vanderbilt's neurology department from 2001 to 2017.
Robert S. Zucker
Robert S. Zucker, also known as Robert Zucker, is a cellular neuroscientist at UC Berkeley known for showing that calcium entry, not depolarization, triggers neurotransmitter release.
Robert Sekuler
Robert Sekuler, born in 1939, is an American cognitive neuroscientist, the Louis and Frances Salvage Professor of Psychology, Emeritus, at Brandeis University, known for research on visual perception, memory, and aging.
Robert Shapley
Robert M. Shapley is an American visual neurophysiologist at New York University known for work on retinal gain control and orientation tuning in visual cortex.
Robert Stickgold
Robert Stickgold is a Harvard Medical School cognitive neuroscientist whose work shows sleep is required for memory, and who studies dreaming as offline memory processing.
Robert T. Knight
Robert T. Knight is an American cognitive neuroscientist and neurologist at UC Berkeley, known for work on the prefrontal cortex, attention, and memory, and for developing electrocorticography.
Robert W. Baloh
Robert W. Baloh, also published as R. W. Baloh, is an American neurologist and neuro-otologist at UCLA whose vestibular tests and textbooks became the field standard.
Robert W. McCarley
Robert W. McCarley, also known as R.W. McCarley, was an American psychiatrist and neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School and VA Boston who studied REM sleep and schizophrenia.
Roberto Malinow
Roberto Malinow, born 1956 in Buenos Aires, is an Argentine-born American neuroscientist at UC San Diego known for showing that AMPA receptor movement underlies synaptic plasticity and memory.
Robin F. Krimm
Robin F. Krimm is an American neuroscientist at the University of Louisville known for research on the neurons that carry taste information to the brain.
Rodolfo Llinás
Rodolfo Llinás, born 1934 in Bogotá, Colombia, is a Colombian-American neuroscientist at NYU School of Medicine known for work on intrinsic neuron electrophysiology, the thalamocortical system, and magnetoencephalography.