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Julien Bogousslavsky
Julien Bogousslavsky (J. Bogousslavsky), born 1954 in Paris, is a Swiss neurologist and stroke researcher known for creating the Lausanne Stroke Registry at CHUV in Lausanne.
Júlio Licinio
Júlio Licinio is a psychiatrist and pharmacogenomics researcher who became dean of the College of Medicine at SUNY Upstate in 2017 and founded Molecular Psychiatry.
Julius Wagner-Jauregg
Julius Wagner-Jauregg (1857–1940) was an Austrian psychiatrist and neurologist at Vienna University who won the 1927 Nobel Prize for introducing malaria inoculation to treat general paralysis.
Jürgen Götz
Jürgen Götz is a neuroscientist at the University of Queensland who created the first tau mouse models of Alzheimer's disease and developed scanning ultrasound therapy.
Justin Parent
Justin Parent is an American clinical child psychologist, associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and director of the KiDS Lab who received the 2025 Presidential Early Career Award.
K. Ranga Rama Krishnan
K. Ranga Rama Krishnan is an Indian-born psychiatrist and academic leader who chaired psychiatry at Duke, led Duke-NUS in Singapore, and headed Rush in Chicago.
Kaj Blennow
Kaj Blennow is a Swedish physician and clinical neurochemist, professor at the University of Gothenburg, known for establishing the protein markers in cerebrospinal fluid and blood used to diagnose Alzheimer's disease.
Kalipada Pahan
Kalipada Pahan, published as K. Pahan, is a neuroscientist at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago known for research on statins in the brain and on alpha-synuclein spreading in Parkinson's disease.
Kalpathy S. Krishnamoorthy
Kalpathy S. Krishnamoorthy is an Indian-born pediatric neurologist and Harvard professor at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, known for neonatal neurology research on seizures, hemorrhage, and hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy.
Karen Duff
Karen Duff is a neuroscientist studying Alzheimer's disease and tauopathies who directs the UK Dementia Research Institute at University College London and created key transgenic mouse models.
Karin B. Nelson
Karin B. Nelson is an American pediatric neurologist and neuroepidemiologist, a Scientist Emeritus at NINDS in Bethesda, Maryland, known for her 1986 study of cerebral palsy antecedents and a practice-changing phenobarbital trial.
Karl Kleist
Karl Kleist (1879–1960) was a German psychiatrist, neurologist, and neuroanatomist, professor at Frankfurt from 1920, who first described several apraxias and founded the Wernicke–Kleist–Leonhard classification of endogenous psychoses.
Katherine Iverson
Katherine M. Iverson is an American clinical research psychologist at VA Boston's National Center for PTSD who studies intimate partner violence screening and treatment for veterans.
Kathy L. Newell
Kathy L. Newell, MD, is a neuropathologist at the Indiana University School of Medicine who studies Alzheimer's disease, co-authored tau filament structures, and leads a $4.8 million TDP-43 research grant.
Kay Redfield Jamison
Kay Redfield Jamison, American clinical psychologist at Johns Hopkins, Dalio Professor in Mood Disorders, co-author of the standard bipolar textbook and memoirist of An Unquiet Mind.
Keith A. Josephs
Keith A. Josephs (Keith Josephs) is a neurologist and Professor of Neurology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, known for reclassifying progressive supranuclear palsy and frontotemporal dementia.
Keith Hawton
Keith Hawton, born in 1942, is a British psychiatrist and suicidologist who founded Oxford's Centre for Suicide Research; his work on paracetamol pack-size limits helped cut poisoning deaths by 43%.
Kelly N. Botteron
Kelly N. Botteron is an American child and adolescent psychiatrist and neuroimaging researcher, professor of psychiatry and radiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
Kennedy R. Lees
Kennedy R. Lees is a professor of cerebrovascular medicine at the University of Glasgow whose trials shaped thrombolysis for acute ischaemic stroke, including the 2010 Lancet pooled analysis.
Kenneth C. Gorson
Kenneth C. Gorson is an American neurologist and neuromuscular specialist, Professor of Neurology at Tufts, known for New England Journal of Medicine reviews on paraproteinemic neuropathies and concussion.
Kenneth H. Fischbeck
Kenneth H. Fischbeck is an American neurologist and neurogeneticist who identified the gene mutation causing Kennedy's disease and served as chief of the Neurogenetics Branch at NINDS.
Kenneth L. Davis
Kenneth L. Davis is an American psychiatrist who created the Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale and led the Mount Sinai Health System as CEO from 2003 to 2023.
Kenneth L. Tyler
Kenneth L. Tyler is an American physician-scientist in neuroinfectious disease at the University of Colorado, known for the 2005 NEJM report linking natalizumab to PML.
Kenneth S. Kendler
Kenneth S. Kendler, born 1950, is an American psychiatric geneticist at Virginia Commonwealth University who directs the Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics and studies schizophrenia.
Keqiang Ye
Keqiang Ye (叶克强) is a Chinese neuroscientist who discovered the AEP enzyme driving Alzheimer's pathology and developed the α-synuclein PET tracer F0502B; he is dean at Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology.
Khalid Iqbal
Khalid Iqbal is a neurochemist, known as the "father of tau," who discovered that Alzheimer's paired helical filaments are made of abnormally hyperphosphorylated tau protein.
Kim Gorgens
Kim Gorgens is a clinical neuropsychologist and professor at the University of Denver whose research documents traumatic brain injury in criminal justice populations and shaped Colorado concussion laws.
Kimford J. Meador
Kimford J. Meador, also published as Kimford Meador, is an American epileptologist and Professor of Neurology at Stanford University whose NEAD study showed fetal valproate exposure lowers childhood IQ.
Kinh Luan Phan
Kinh Luan Phan is a psychiatrist and neuroscientist who studies how stress and trauma shape the brain, and professor and chair of psychiatry at Ohio State.
Konrad Beyreuther
Konrad Beyreuther, born 1941, is a German molecular biologist known for identifying the amyloid protein of Alzheimer's plaques and for characterizing the amyloid precursor protein at Heidelberg.