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John M. Kane
John M. Kane is an American psychiatrist and schizophrenia researcher who chaired psychiatry at Zucker Hillside Hospital for 34 years, led the RAISE-ETP first-episode treatment trial, and received a 2026 Lifetime Achievement Award.
John Macdonald (forensic psychiatrist)
John Macdonald, full name John Marshall Macdonald (1920–2007), was a New Zealand-born forensic psychiatrist who spent his career in Denver, examined defendants including Ted Bundy, and proposed the Macdonald triad.
John N. Whitaker
John N. Whitaker was an American neurologist and immunologist who chaired neurology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham from 1985 until his death in 2001.
John Newsom–Davis
John Newsom-Davis was a British neurologist and clinical scientist who established the autoimmune basis of myasthenia gravis, traced its antibodies to the thymus, and died in 2007.
John P. Blass
John P. Blass (1937–2023) was an Austrian-born American physician and neurological researcher at the Burke Neurological Institute and Weill Cornell Medicine, known for linking thiamine-dependent enzyme deficits to Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome and Alzheimer's disease.
John Q. Trojanowski
John Q. Trojanowski (John Trojanowski, 1946–2022) was an American neuropathologist at the University of Pennsylvania who identified tau in Alzheimer's tangles, alpha-synuclein in Lewy bodies, and TDP-43 in ALS.
John R. Hodges
John R. Hodges, born in 1952, is a British cognitive neurologist who founded the FRONTIER research group in Sydney and studies frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease.
John S. Duncan
John S. Duncan, born 1955, is a British neurologist specializing in epilepsy, a consultant at Queen Square since 1989 and Professor of Neurology at UCL since 1998.
John Stirling Meyer
John Stirling Meyer was a neurologist and pioneer of cerebral blood flow and metabolism research in stroke, migraine, and dementia, longtime chairman of neurology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.
John T. O’Brien
John T. O'Brien is a British psychiatrist and dementia researcher, Professor of Old Age Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge, known for work on Lewy body dementia.
John Vissing
John Vissing is a Danish neurologist and professor at the University of Copenhagen who directs the Copenhagen Neuromuscular Center at Rigshospitalet and studies hereditary muscle disease.
John W. Griffin
John W. "Jack" Griffin (1942–2011) was an American neurologist and peripheral nerve researcher at Johns Hopkins, where he headed neurology, founded the Brain Science Institute, and helped prove plasmapheresis treats Guillain-Barré syndrome.
John Whyte (physiatrist)
John Whyte is an American physiatrist and experimental psychologist known for research on traumatic brain injury rehabilitation and disorders of consciousness, and founding director of the Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute.
Jon McClellan
Jon McClellan is an American child and adolescent psychiatrist and psychiatric geneticist, a University of Washington professor who studies rare mutations behind schizophrenia and autism.
Jonathan Dostrovsky
Jonathan Dostrovsky is a Canadian neurophysiologist at the University of Toronto known for recording single neurons in awake patients during surgery for pain and movement disorders.
Jonathan Flint (psychiatrist)
Jonathan Flint is a British psychiatrist and geneticist, the Billy and Audrey Wilder Professor at UCLA, known for identifying the first genetic variants linked to depression.
José Á. Obeso
José A. Obeso is a Spanish neurologist at CEU San Pablo University Madrid known for continuous dopaminergic stimulation in Parkinson's disease and a 2020 focused ultrasound subthalamotomy trial.
Josef Gerstmann
Josef Gerstmann (1887–1969) was an Austrian-born American neurologist who described the cognitive tetrad Gerstmann syndrome and co-described the prion disease Gerstmann–Sträussler–Scheinker; expelled from Vienna by the Nazis in 1938, he rebuilt his career in New York.
Josemir W. Sander
Josemir W. Sander (雷 桑德), known as Ley Sander, is a Brazilian-born British neurologist, professor of neurology and clinical epilepsy at UCL, known for research on epilepsy epidemiology and global epilepsy care.
Joseph Babinski
Joseph Babinski (1857–1932) was a French neurologist of Polish descent, the favorite pupil of Jean-Martin Charcot, who described the Babinski sign in 1896 and coined terms like anosognosia.
Joseph Biederman
Joseph Biederman (1947–2023) was an Argentine-trained American psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard who built the field of pediatric psychopharmacology, treating psychiatric disorders in children.
Joseph Capgras
Joseph Capgras (1873–1950) was a French psychiatrist who described the illusion of doubles, now called Capgras syndrome, in 1923 with his intern Jean Reboul-Lachaux, and led a sought-after ward at Sainte-Anne hospital in Paris.
Joseph J. Volpe
Joseph J. Volpe is an American child neurologist at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, considered the founder of neonatal neurology and author of the landmark textbook Neurology of the Newborn.
Joseph Jankovic
Joseph Jankovic is an American neurologist, Professor at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, who pioneered botulinum toxin therapy and tetrabenazine approval for movement disorders.
Joseph P. Broderick
Joseph P. Broderick is an American vascular neurologist and stroke researcher at the University of Cincinnati, known for stroke epidemiology and major acute stroke treatment trials.
Joseph S. Takahashi
Joseph S. Takahashi is an American chronobiologist who identified the first mammalian circadian clock gene, Clock, and has chaired neuroscience at UT Southwestern Medical Center since 2009.
Judith L. Rapoport
Judith L. Rapoport, born Judith Helen Livant, was an American child psychiatrist who led the NIMH Child Psychiatry Branch from 1984 to 2017 and wrote The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Washing.
Judson Brewer
Judson Brewer is an American psychiatrist and neuroscientist who studies how reward-based learning maintains habits like smoking and anxiety, developing app-based mindfulness treatments and directing research at Brown University's Mindfulness Center.
Jules Froment
Jules Froment (1878–1946) was a French neurologist who spent his career at the Lyon hospitals, known for Froment's sign of ulnar nerve palsy and work with Joseph Babinski on war neurology.
Jules Tinel
Jules Tinel (1879–1952) was a French neurologist who described the Tinel sign in 1915, tingling felt when an injured nerve is pressed, and first described paroxysmal hypertension in pheochromocytoma.