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Researchers in clinical neuroscience, neurology, and psychiatry research

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Ira Shoulson

Ira Shoulson (1946–2024) was an American neurologist and clinical trialist at the University of Rochester who led the DATATOP trial, co-founded the Parkinson Study Group, and helped bring ten neurological drugs to FDA approval.

Irene Tracey

Irene Tracey is a British neuroscientist known for neuroimaging research on how the brain produces and modulates pain, and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford since 2023.

Irvin D. Yalom

Irvin D. Yalom, born 1931, is an American existential psychiatrist, emeritus professor of psychiatry at Stanford University, and author of Existential Psychotherapy and teaching novels.

Isidró Ferrer

Isidre Ferrer is a Spanish neuropathologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Barcelona who studies tau pathology in Alzheimer's disease and founded the Bellvitge brain bank.

Ivan E. de Araújo

Ivan E. de Araújo is a Brazilian-born neuroscientist who studies how gut signals shape appetite, reward, and mood, directing the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics since 2023.

J. David Spence

J. David Spence was a Canadian neurologist and clinical pharmacologist who founded the Stroke Prevention & Atherosclerosis Research Centre at Robarts and pioneered carotid plaque measurement; he died in 2025.

J. Douglas Bremner

J. Douglas Bremner, also known as Douglas Bremner, is an American psychiatrist at Emory University known for MRI studies showing smaller hippocampal volume in PTSD and depression.

J. John Mann

J. John Mann is a psychiatrist and neuroscientist at Columbia University who studies the brain chemistry of depression and suicide and co-developed the Columbia–Suicide Severity Rating Scale.

J. Richard Baringer

J. Richard Baringer was an American neurologist who showed herpes simplex virus persists in human sensory ganglia, and chaired neurology at the University of Utah.

J. van Gijn

Jan van Gijn (1942 to 2025) was a Dutch neurologist and professor at University Medical Center Utrecht, known for research on subarachnoid hemorrhage and stroke prevention.

J. William Langston

J. William Langston is an American neurologist who identified the toxin MPTP as a cause of parkinsonism in 1982 and founded the Parkinson's Institute in Sunnyvale, California.

J.N. Blau

J.N. Blau, Joseph Norman ('Nat') Blau (1928–2010), was a British neurologist and migraine specialist who co-founded the City of London Migraine Clinic and identified migraine's pre-headache prodrome.

Jack H. Mendelson

Jack H. Mendelson (Jack Harold Mendelson, 1929–2007) was an American psychiatrist and endocrinologist who led the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Research Center at McLean Hospital and helped establish alcoholism as a medical disorder.

Jack P. Antel

Jack P. Antel is a Canadian neurologist and neuroimmunologist at McGill University and the Montreal Neurological Institute, known for multiple sclerosis research and the 2005 Dystel Award.

Jacqueline French

Jacqueline A. French is an American epileptologist, professor of neurology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, and founder of the Epilepsy Study Consortium, known for novel epilepsy trial designs.

Jacques De Keyser

Jacques De Keyser is a Belgian neurologist and neuroscientist, professor emeritus at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, known for research on stroke, multiple sclerosis, and astrocytes.

Jacques Glowinski

Jacques Glowinski (1936–2020) was a French neuropharmacologist, trained as a pharmacist, who pioneered in vivo measurement of neurotransmitter release and led Inserm Unit 114 at the Collège de France.

Jaideep Bains

Jaideep S. Bains is a Canadian neuroscientist known for showing that stress can be transmitted socially through alarm signals, and who has led the Krembil Research Institute in Toronto since 2022.

Jaime Grutzendler

Jaime Grutzendler is a Colombian-born neurologist and neuroscientist at Yale School of Medicine who studies stroke and neurodegeneration, known for intravital imaging of living brain cells and the 2010 embolus extravasation mechanism.

James B. Rowe

James B. Rowe is a British neurologist, Professor of Cognitive Neurology at the University of Cambridge, and consultant at Addenbrooke's Hospital who studies Alzheimer's disease, frontotemporal dementia, and PSP.

James C. Grotta

James C. Grotta is an American vascular neurologist in Houston who helped run the 1995 NINDS tPA trial and led the BEST-MSU trial of mobile stroke units.

James Crichton-Browne

Sir James Crichton-Browne (1840–1938) was a British psychiatrist and neurologist who directed the West Riding Lunatic Asylum from 1866, corresponded with Darwin, and co-founded Brain in 1878.

James F. Leckman

James F. Leckman is an American child psychiatrist and clinical neuroscientist, a Yale Child Study Center professor from 1976 to 2025, known for research on Tourette syndrome and pediatric OCD.

James M. Swanson

James M. Swanson is an American child psychiatry researcher at the University of California, Irvine, known for decades of work on ADHD, including the MTA treatment study.

James Q. Miller

James Quinter Miller (1926–2005) was an American neurologist at the University of Virginia whose 1963 description of lissencephaly in two siblings gave his name to Miller–Dieker syndrome, and who won record teaching awards.

James Ramsay Hunt

James Ramsay Hunt was an American neurologist and Columbia University professor who described Ramsay Hunt syndrome type 2, herpes zoster oticus with facial paralysis, and died in 1937.

James Walker Dawson

James Walker Dawson (1870–1927) was a Scottish pathologist at the Royal College of Physicians' Laboratory in Edinburgh whose landmark 1916 monograph on multiple sclerosis gave medicine the Dawson's fingers MRI sign.

Jan Claassen

Jan Claassen is a German-trained neurologist and neurocritical care specialist who is Chief of Critical Care and Hospitalist Neurology at Columbia University, known for detecting hidden consciousness.

Janet Treasure

Janet Treasure is a British psychiatrist and professor at King's College London known for research on eating disorders and for developing MANTRA, a NICE-recommended therapy for anorexia nervosa.

Jari Tiihonen

Jari Tiihonen (born 1960) is a Finnish psychiatrist and physician-scientist, professor at Karolinska Institutet and the University of Eastern Finland, known for the 2009 FIN11 register study of antipsychotics in schizophrenia.