Researchers in clinical neuroscience, neurology, and psychiatry research

Henry F. McFarland

Henry F. McFarland (1940–2024) was an American neuroimmunologist who spent his career at NINDS, co-founded its Neuroimmunology Branch in 1975, and pioneered MRI for diagnosing and monitoring multiple sclerosis.

Henry Head

Henry Head (1861–1940) was a British neurologist, physician to the London Hospital, and editor of Brain, known for Head's zones, dermatome maps, and studies of sensation and aphasia.

Henry J.M. Barnett

Henry J.M. Barnett (1922–2016) was a Canadian neurologist who directed the trials establishing modern stroke prevention, including the first randomized aspirin trial and NASCET, and co-founded the Robarts Research Institute.

Henry Meige

Henry Meige (1866–1940) was a French neurologist of the Charcot school at the Salpêtrière, eponymist of Meige syndrome and co-author of the first book on movement disorders.

Herbert Jasper

Herbert Henri Jasper (1906–1999) was a Canadian neuroscientist who helped found clinical neurophysiology, confirmed the human EEG in North America, and led the Montreal Neurological Institute's EEG laboratories.

Herbert Kleber

Herbert D. Kleber (1934-2018), American psychiatrist and addiction treatment pioneer; founded Yale's Drug Dependence Unit, ran first clonidine trial, ONDCP deputy director under Bush, co-founded Center on Addiction, Columbia professor.

Herbert L. Needleman

Herbert Leroy Needleman, an American pediatrician and researcher, showed that low-level lead exposure damages children's intelligence, leading to the ban of lead in U.S. gasoline and paint.

Herbert Y. Meltzer

Herbert Y. Meltzer is an American psychiatrist, Professor Emeritus at Northwestern University, known for the dopamine-serotonin hypothesis of atypical antipsychotics and clinical trials that won clozapine approval for treatment-resistant schizophrenia.

Hermann Oppenheim

Hermann Oppenheim (1858–1919) was a German neurologist in Berlin who described the Oppenheim reflex, amyotonia congenita, and dystonia musculorum deformans, and wrote the standard German neurology textbook of 1894.

Hermann Rorschach

Hermann Rorschach (1884-1922), Swiss psychiatrist, creator of the Rorschach inkblot test; published Psychodiagnostik in 1921 with ten blots; died at 37; test's validity remains debated.

Hilal A. Lashuel

Hilal A. Lashuel, also known as Hilal Lashuel, is a neuroscientist who studies protein misfolding in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease and is Professor of Neurology at Weill Cornell Medicine–Qatar.

Hitoshi Takahashi

Hitoshi Takahashi (高橋均) is a Japanese neuropathologist, professor emeritus at Niigata University, known for showing that α-synuclein accumulates in Lewy bodies in Parkinson's disease.

Hooman Kamel

Hooman Kamel is an American neurologist and clinical scientist at Weill Cornell Medicine known for research on stroke prevention, especially the link between cardiac disease and ischemic stroke.

Howard H. Goldman

Howard H. Goldman is an American psychiatrist and mental health policy researcher, a University of Maryland professor since 1985 who edited the 1999 Surgeon General's Report on Mental Health.

Howard L. Fields

Howard L. Fields, also known as Howard Fields, was an American neurologist and neuroscientist at UCSF who showed how endogenous opioids suppress pain and mediate placebo analgesia.

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Howard L. Weiner

Howard L. Weiner is an American neurologist and neuroimmunologist, Robert L. Kroc Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, known for developing oral tolerance immunotherapy for multiple sclerosis.

Huaxi Xu

Huaxi Xu (徐华西) was a neuroscientist who studied the cell biology of Alzheimer's disease, known for work on APP processing and for identifying TREM2 as a receptor for β-amyloid.

Hugh S. Markus

Hugh S. Markus is a British neurologist, Professor of Stroke Medicine at Cambridge since 2013, known for research on stroke genetics and cerebral small vessel disease.

Hui Zheng

Hui Zheng is a neuroscientist and mouse geneticist at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, known for pioneering mouse models of APP and presenilins in Alzheimer's disease.

Huntington Potter

Huntington Potter is a neuroscientist and Professor of Neurology at the University of Colorado who researches Alzheimer's disease, its link to Down syndrome, and GM-CSF treatment trials.

Husseini K. Manji

Husseini K. Manji is a physician-scientist in mood disorders research, Professor of Psychiatry at Oxford who shared the 2023 Sarnat Prize for discovering ketamine's rapid antidepressant effects.

Iain McGilchrist

Iain McGilchrist is a British psychiatrist, former Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, known for The Master and his Emissary (2009) and The Matter with Things (2021).

Ian G. McKeith

Ian G. McKeith, also known as Ian McKeith, is a British old-age psychiatrist and Emeritus Professor at Newcastle University who established dementia with Lewy bodies as a distinct, diagnosable dementia.

Ian Hickie

Ian B. Hickie is an Australian psychiatrist and University of Sydney professor known for the clinical staging model for mood disorders and youth mental health services.

Ian R. Mackenzie

Ian R. Mackenzie is a Canadian neuropathologist, professor at the University of British Columbia, known for defining the TDP-43 protein pathology that links ALS and frontotemporal dementia.

Ichizo Nishino

Ichizo Nishino is a Japanese neurologist and muscle disease researcher at the NCNP in Tokyo, known for identifying the causes of Danon disease and GNE myopathy.

Igor J. Koralnik

Igor J. Koralnik is a neurologist who is chief of Neuro-infectious Disease and Global Neurology at Northwestern University, known for discovering new JC virus brain diseases.

Ikuo Nishimoto

Ikuo Nishimoto (西本征央, 1956–2003) was a Japanese neurology researcher and pharmacology professor at Keio University whose work on Alzheimer's disease led to the discovery of Humanin.

Inga Zerr

Inga Zerr is a German neurologist at the University Medical Center Göttingen who leads the National Reference Center for Human Prion Diseases and the Clinical Dementia Center.