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Jean Abadie
Jean Abadie (1873–1946) was a French neuropsychiatrist, professor of nervous and mental diseases at Bordeaux, remembered for Abadie's sign of tabes dorsalis, the painless pressure on the Achilles tendon.
Jean Lhermitte
Jean Lhermitte, full name Jacques Jean Lhermitte (1877–1959), was a French neurologist and neuropsychiatrist, son of the painter Léon Augustin Lhermitte, known for Lhermitte's sign and Lhermitte-Duclos disease.
Jean-Martin Charcot
Jean-Martin Charcot (1825–1893), French neurologist, founder of modern neurology with Duchenne; Salpêtrière school, first neurology chair (1882), multiple sclerosis, ALS, Charcot-Marie-Tooth, contested hysteria and hypnosis work.
Jean‐Louis Mas
Jean-Louis Mas is a French neurologist and stroke researcher who headed neurology at Hôpital Sainte-Anne in Paris from 1995 to 2022, known for the CLOSE and EVA-3S trials.
Jean‐Yves Delattre
Jean-Yves Delattre is a French neurologist and neuro-oncologist who leads neuro-oncology at the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital in Paris, and led the 2007 trial establishing radiotherapy for elderly glioblastoma patients.
Jeanne Miranda
Jeanne Miranda is an American clinical psychologist and mental health services researcher, Distinguished University Professor at Florida International University, who studies depression care for low-income and minority populations.
Jeffrey A. Cohen
Jeffrey A. Cohen is an American neurologist specializing in multiple sclerosis at the Cleveland Clinic's Mellen Center, known for leading the 2010 TRANSFORMS trial of oral fingolimod.
Jeffrey D. Rothstein
Jeffrey D. Rothstein is an American neurologist and neuroscientist at Johns Hopkins whose laboratory shaped the modern understanding of ALS, contributing to the drug riluzole.
Jeffrey H. Kordower
Jeffrey H. Kordower is a neuroscientist studying Parkinson's disease in nonhuman primate models, and founding director of the ASU-Banner Neurodegenerative Disease Research Center at Arizona State University.
Jeffrey L. Cummings
Jeffrey L. Cummings is an American neurologist and Alzheimer's disease researcher who directs the Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Jeffrey L. Saver
Jeffrey L. Saver, also known as Jeffrey Saver, is an American vascular neurologist directing UCLA's stroke program since 1995, known for the SWIFT PRIME and RESPECT trials.
Jeffrey S. Mogil
Jeffrey S. Mogil is a Canadian pain researcher at McGill University known for founding pain genetics and showing that male and female mice process pain differently.
Jeroen Hendrikse
Jeroen Hendrikse (born 1976) is a Dutch neuroradiologist and professor at UMC Utrecht, known for arterial spin labeling perfusion MRI and vessel-wall imaging in stroke.
Jerome Engel
Jerome Engel Jr. is an American neurologist and neuroscientist at UCLA, where he directs the Seizure Disorder Center and studies why epilepsy surgery is underused.
Jerry R. Mendell
Jerry R. Mendell is an American pediatric neurologist and neuromuscular disease researcher at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, who led the pivotal trials behind Zolgensma for spinal muscular atrophy and ELEVIDYS for Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
Jerry S. Wolinsky
Jerry S. Wolinsky is an American neurologist and multiple sclerosis researcher at UTHealth Houston who helped revise the McDonald diagnostic criteria and led the ORATORIO ocrelizumab trial.
Jes Olesen
Jes Olesen, born in 1941, is a Danish neurologist at the University of Copenhagen who chaired all three editions of the International Classification of Headache Disorders.
Jimmie C. Holland
Jimmie C. Holland, born Jimmie Coker (1928–2017), was an American psychiatrist who founded psycho-oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering, created the NCCN Distress Thermometer, and led the campaign making distress screening standard cancer care.
Joan K. Austin
Joan Kessner Austin is an American epilepsy nursing scientist and Indiana University distinguished professor emerita who studied epilepsy in children, led the American Epilepsy Society in 2005, and joined the National Academy of Medicine in 2000.
Joan L. Luby
Joan L. Luby is a child psychiatrist at Washington University School of Medicine whose research established that depression can be diagnosed in children as young as 3.
Joanna C. Jen
Joanna C. Jen is an American neurologist and neurogeneticist who identified the ROBO3 gene and is a professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
Jocelyne Bloch
Jocelyne Bloch is a Swiss neurosurgeon who leads neurosurgery at Lausanne University Hospital and co-directs .NeuroRestore, developing spinal cord implants that let paralyzed people walk.
Joe Verghese
Joe Verghese is an American neurologist, chair of neurology at Stony Brook University since 2024, known for gait studies predicting dementia and defining Motoric Cognitive Risk syndrome.
Johann Hoffmann (neurologist)
Johann Hoffmann (1857–1919) was a German neurologist who spent his career at Heidelberg and is known for Werdnig–Hoffmann disease, Hoffmann's syndrome, and the finger-flexion Hoffmann sign.
John C. Mazziotta
John C. Mazziotta is an American neurologist and brain imaging researcher who has been Vice Chancellor of UCLA Health Sciences and CEO of UCLA Health since 2015.
John D. Michenfelder
John D. Michenfelder, born in 1931, is an American anesthesiologist at the Mayo Clinic who researched anesthetics' effects on cerebral metabolism and brain protection.
John Geddes (psychiatrist)
John Richard Geddes is a British psychiatrist at the University of Oxford whose research on mood disorders and clinical trial methods has influenced practice internationally.
John H. Krystal
John H. Krystal is an American psychiatrist-scientist who chairs the Yale Department of Psychiatry and is best known for leading the discovery of ketamine's rapid antidepressant effects.
John Hughlings Jackson
John Hughlings Jackson (1835–1911) was an English neurologist known as the father of English neurology, who defined epilepsy as a local discharge of gray matter.
John M. Freeman
John M. Freeman (1933–2014) was an American pediatric neurologist at Johns Hopkins who founded its pediatric neurology division and revived the ketogenic diet and hemispherectomy for children's epilepsy.