Researchers in clinical neuroscience, neurology, and psychiatry research

Korbinian Brodmann

Korbinian Brodmann was a German neurologist who divided the human cerebral cortex into 43 numbered areas in his 1909 monograph, a map neuroscientists still use to localize brain imaging data.

Sep 17, 2026

Krista M. Lisdahl is an American clinical neuropsychologist and professor at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee who studies how chronic cannabis, alcohol, and nicotine use affect the developing adolescent brain.

Kristine Yaffe

Kristine Yaffe is an American psychiatrist and epidemiologist who studies cognitive aging and dementia at UCSF and the San Francisco VA, estimating 30%–40% of dementia risk may be preventable.

Kristopher T. Kahle

Kristopher T. Kahle is a pediatric neurosurgeon and human geneticist who directs pediatric neurosurgery at Massachusetts General Hospital and studies the genetics of hydrocephalus in children.

Ladislas J. Meduna

Ladislas J. Meduna (László Meduna, 1896–1964) was a Hungarian-American neurologist who introduced convulsive therapy in 1934, inducing seizures with camphor and cardiazol to treat schizophrenia.

Larry J. Young

Larry J. Young (1967–2024) was an American social neuroscientist at Emory University, known for prairie vole research showing how oxytocin and vasopressin regulate social bonding.

Lars Bertram

Lars Bertram is a German physician-scientist who studies Alzheimer's disease genetics, known for the AlzGene database and a professor of genome analytics at the University of Lübeck.

Lars Fugger

Lars Fugger, born in 1960, is a Danish physician-scientist and Professor of Neuroimmunology at Oxford, known for a humanized transgenic mouse model of multiple sclerosis.

Lars Terenius

Lars Terenius is a Swedish pharmacologist who in 1973 was among the first to demonstrate opiate receptors in the brain, winning the 1978 Canada Gairdner International Award.

Lary C. Walker

Lary C. Walker is a neuroscientist and neuropathologist at Emory University in Atlanta known for establishing that amyloid-beta, the protein of Alzheimer's plaques, spreads by prion-like seeding.

Laura Manuelidis

Laura Manuelidis is an American physician and neuropathologist at Yale School of Medicine known for transmitting CJD to mice in 1978 and arguing the TSE agent is a virus.

Lawrence Steinman

Lawrence Steinman is a neurologist at Stanford University whose multiple sclerosis research produced the approved therapy natalizumab, and who was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2015.

Lee H. Schwamm

Lee H. Schwamm, also known as Lee Schwamm, is an American vascular neurologist and telehealth researcher known for building large-scale telestroke networks and national stroke quality-improvement programs.

Lee M. Eaton

Lee M. Eaton, born Lealdes McKendree Eaton (1905–1958), was an American Mayo Clinic neurologist who headed its neurology section and co-described Lambert–Eaton myasthenic syndrome with Edward H. Lambert in 1957.

Sep 17, 2026

Leo Kanner

Leo Kanner (1894–1981), Austrian-born American psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins; founded US academic child psychiatry, wrote the first English textbook Child Psychiatry (1935), and described early infantile autism in 1943.

Leon Eisenberg

Leon Eisenberg (1922–2009) was an American child psychiatrist who moved the field from psychoanalysis to empirical trials, running the first studies of Ritalin in overactive children at Johns Hopkins and Harvard.

Leonard H. van den Berg

Leonard H. van den Berg (Leonard Hendrik van den Berg, born 1963) is a Dutch neurologist and professor of experimental neurology at UMC Utrecht, known for ALS research and Project MinE.

Leonard Petrucelli

Leonard Petrucelli is an American neuroscientist known for research on TDP-43 and the C9orf72 mutation in ALS and frontotemporal dementia, and founding director of the University of Miami's Neuroscience Institute.

Leonard T. Kurland

Leonard T. Kurland (1921–2001) was an American physician and epidemiologist at the Mayo Clinic who founded neuroepidemiology and created the Rochester Epidemiology Project, a records-linkage system covering Olmsted County, Minnesota.

Leonardo Bianchi

Leonardo Bianchi (1848–1927) was an Italian neurologist and psychiatrist who founded the Psychiatric Institute of Naples, established experimental research on the frontal lobes, and served as the first president of the Italian Society of Neurology.

Leslie P. Weiner

Leslie P. Weiner, also cited as L. P. Weiner, is a retired American neurologist and virologist who identified the JC papovavirus as the cause of PML.

Sep 17, 2026

Leslie S. Ritter

Leslie S. Ritter is an American nurse scientist and stroke researcher, Professor Emerita at the University of Arizona and director of the Stroke Resource Center of Southern Arizona.

Lewis P. Rowland

Lewis P. Rowland (1925–2017) was an American neurologist who chaired neurology at Columbia University for 25 years, edited Merritt's Textbook of Neurology, and led ALS research and clinical trials.

Li Gan

Li Gan is a neuroscientist directing the Helen and Robert Appel Alzheimer's Disease Research Institute at Weill Cornell Medicine since 2018, known for work on tau acetylation.

Lisa Monteggia

Lisa M. Monteggia is a neuroscientist studying the molecular mechanisms of depression and rapid-acting antidepressants, and she directs the Vanderbilt Brain Institute as Barlow Family Director.

Lisa Mosconi

Lisa Mosconi is an Italian-born neuroscientist at Weill Cornell Medicine who directs its Alzheimer's Prevention Program and studies women's brain health and menopause through brain imaging.

Liverij Osipovich Darkshevich

Liverij Osipovich Darkshevich (Ливерий Осипович Даркшевич, 1858–1925) was a Russian neurologist who identified the midbrain's nucleus of Darkshevich and founded the Kazan school of neurology.

Louis Jacobsohn-Lask

Louis Jacobsohn-Lask, born Louis Jacobsohn, was a German neurologist and neuroanatomist known for the Bekhterev–Jacobsohn finger-flexion reflex and handbooks on nervous-system anatomy; expelled in 1933, he died in Sevastopol in 1940.

Louis R. Caplan

Louis R. Caplan, born 1936 in Baltimore, Maryland, is an American neurologist specializing in stroke, a Harvard Medical School professor at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center who founded the Harvard Stroke Registry.