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Clinical neurology and neurorehabilitation

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Adolph Strümpell

Adolph Strümpell (Ernst Adolph G.G. von Strümpell, 1853–1925) was a German neurologist who helped establish neurology as a discipline, first described ankylosing spondylitis and hereditary spastic paraplegia, and wrote an influential internal medicine textbook.

Alan I. Faden

Alan I. Faden is an American neurologist whose research shaped the modern understanding of traumatic brain and spinal cord injury, with two neuroprotective strategies advanced to clinical trials.

Albert C. Lo

Albert C. Lo is an American neurologist and rehabilitation neuroscientist who won the 2003 Presidential Early Career Award and led the VA ROBOTICS stroke therapy trial.

André Léri

André Léri (1875–1930) was a French neurologist of the Paris school, a pupil of Joseph Babinski and Pierre Marie, known for Léri's sign, Léri pleonosteosis, and Léri-Weill dyschondrosteosis.

Andrew G. Engel

Andrew G. Engel (1930–2024) was a Hungarian-born American neurologist and neuroscientist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and a pioneer in neuromuscular diseases, elected in 2003 to the Institute of Medicine.

Anthony A. Amato

Anthony A. Amato is an American neurologist in neuromuscular medicine, a professor at Harvard Medical School and Vice Chairman of Neurology at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.

Arthur K. Asbury

Arthur K. Asbury (1928–2022) was an American neuromuscular neurologist at the University of Pennsylvania who chaired the committee that set the diagnostic criteria for Guillain-Barré syndrome.

Arthur Simons

Arthur Simons (1877–1942) was a German neurologist in Berlin who described tonic neck reflexes and associated movements in hemiplegic patients; deported in 1942, he was murdered in Tallinn.

Bennett A. Shaywitz

Bennett A. Shaywitz is an American pediatric neurologist and physician-scientist at Yale School of Medicine whose functional brain-imaging studies helped establish dyslexia as a disorder of brain organization.

Brian C. Callaghan

Brian C. Callaghan is an American neurologist and neuromuscular specialist at the University of Michigan known for research on diabetic neuropathy and reducing low-value diagnostic testing.

Bruce H. Price

Bruce H. Price is an American neurologist and neuropsychiatrist, chief of neurology at McLean Hospital since 1994, known for work on memory dysfunction and behavioral neurology.

Charles Gilbert Chaddock

Charles Gilbert Chaddock (1861–1936) was an American neurologist in St Louis, Missouri, who described the Chaddock reflex in 1911 and introduced Babinski's sign to the United States in 1899.

Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard

Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard (1817–1894) was a Mauritian-born physiologist and neurologist who worked in Paris, London, Boston, and New York, described the spinal-cord hemisection syndrome in 1850, and is considered a progenitor of endocrinology.

Daniel B. Drachman

Daniel B. Drachman (1932–2022) was an American neurologist and neuroscientist at Johns Hopkins University who established myasthenia gravis as an autoimmune disease, paving the way for plasmapheresis as its first effective treatment.

David A. Chad

David A. Chad is a neuromuscular neurologist from Montreal who built and led the University of Massachusetts Neuromuscular Medicine Division for 26 years, until 2008.

David H. Gutmann

David H. Gutmann is an American physician-scientist and neurologist at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, where he directs the Neurofibromatosis Center and studies the genetic disorder NF1.

Derick T Wade

Derick T Wade, also known as Derick Wade, is a physician in rehabilitation medicine known for his 1983 Lancet paper on stroke care and work defining rehabilitation.

Didier Cros

Didier Cros is a French-trained American neurologist and clinical neurophysiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, known for electrophysiological diagnosis of peripheral nerve disease and NEJM MGH case records.

Eduardo E. Benarroch

Eduardo E. Benarroch is a neurologist and Professor of Neurology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, known for his 1993 definition of the central autonomic network and work on autonomic disorders.

Edward F. Chang

Edward F. Chang is a neurosurgeon and neuroscientist at the University of California, San Francisco, known for mapping the human speech cortex and creating the first speech-decoding brain-computer interface for a paralyzed person.

Edward H. Lambert

Edward H. Lambert (1915–2003) was an American neurologist and physiologist at the Mayo Clinic who founded the first US electromyography laboratory in 1947 and proved Lambert–Eaton myasthenic syndrome is a presynaptic disorder.

Edward I. Ginns

Edward I. Ginns is an American neurologist who directs the Lysosomal Storage Disorders Treatment and Research Center at UMass Chan Medical School, known for Gaucher disease research.

Edward P. Richardson

Edward P. Richardson, also known as E. P. Richardson, was an American neuropathologist who led Massachusetts General Hospital's neuropathology laboratory from 1951 to 1989 and named PML.

Elizabeth Fisher (British neurogeneticist)

Elizabeth M.C. Fisher is a British neurogeneticist, Professor of Neurogenetics at UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology in London, known for mouse models of ALS, Down syndrome, and dynein mutations causing motor neuron degeneration.

Elizabeth Skidmore

Elizabeth Skidmore is an American occupational therapist and rehabilitation scientist, Associate Dean for Research at the University of Pittsburgh, known for research on cognitive impairment and stroke rehabilitation.

Ernő Jendrassik

Ernő Jendrassik (1858–1921) was a Hungarian internist and neurologist, professor, and Academy member who described in 1885 the Jendrassik maneuver, a reflex-reinforcement technique still used in neurological examination.

Ernst Alexander Homén

Ernst Alexander Homén (1851–1926) was a Finnish physician and pathologist, professor at Helsinki, who founded clinical neurology in Finland and first described Wilson's disease in 1890.

Ernst von Leyden

Ernst von Leyden (Ernst Viktor von Leyden, 1832–1910) was a German internist, professor in Berlin, who discovered Charcot–Leyden crystals and treated Bismarck and Tsar Alexander III.

Felipe Fregni

Felipe Fregni is a Brazilian-born physician-scientist at Harvard Medical School who studies non-invasive brain stimulation and clinical trial methodology, leads the Spaulding Neuromodulation Center in Boston, and received the PECASE award.

Fred Plum

Fred Plum (1924–2010) was an American neurologist who helped coin "persistent vegetative state" and "locked-in syndrome", and wrote The Diagnosis of Stupor and Coma with Jerome Posner.