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Researchers in clinical neuroscience, neurology, and psychiatry research

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Martin Dennis

Martin Dennis is a British stroke physician at the University of Edinburgh who led the FOOD feeding, CLOTS compression, and FOCUS fluoxetine trials in stroke medicine.

Martin Dichgans

Martin Dichgans is a German neurologist and physician-scientist who studies stroke, cerebral small vessel disease, and vascular dementia, and has directed the Institute for Stroke and Dementia Research at LMU Klinikum since 2010.

Martin H. Teicher

Martin H. Teicher is an American psychiatrist and neuroscientist who directs the Developmental Biopsychiatry Research Program at McLean Hospital and studies how childhood maltreatment alters brain development.

Martin J. Brodie

Martin J. Brodie is a Scottish epileptologist and clinical pharmacologist who founded the Epilepsy Unit at Glasgow's Western Infirmary and co-authored the ILAE definition of drug-resistant epilepsy.

Martin M. Brown

Martin M. Brown is a British neurologist and Emeritus Professor of Stroke Medicine at UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, chief investigator of the CAVATAS, ICSS, and ECST-2 stroke trials.

Martin Prince

Martin J. Prince is a psychiatrist and psychiatric epidemiologist, Professor of Epidemiological Psychiatry at King's College London, coordinating the 10/66 Dementia Research Group since 1998.

Mary L. Phillips

Mary L. Phillips is a British-born psychiatrist and neuroimaging researcher, Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh, known for identifying neural biomarkers of bipolar disorder risk.

Masashi Yanagisawa

Masashi Yanagisawa (柳沢 正史), born in 1960, is a Japanese neuroscientist who discovered endothelin and orexin, showed orexin deficiency causes narcolepsy, and directs the sleep institute at the University of Tsukuba.

Masato Hasegawa

Masato Hasegawa (長谷川成人) is a Japanese neuroscientist at the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science whose 2006 work identified TDP-43 as a signature of ALS and frontotemporal degeneration.

Massimo Filippi

Massimo Filippi is an Italian neurologist and Full Professor at Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in Milan, known for applying MRI to the study of multiple sclerosis.

Masud Husain

Masud Husain, British neurologist and cognitive neuroscientist, Professor of Neurology & Cognitive Neuroscience at Oxford, Editor-in-Chief of Brain, Royal Society Fellow (2026), researcher on attention, memory and apathy.

Mathias Basner

Mathias Basner is a physician and Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania who studies how sleep loss and transportation noise affect human performance and health.

Mathias Jucker

Mathias Jucker is a neuroscientist who studies brain aging and Alzheimer's disease, known for work showing that misfolded amyloid-β can seed its own aggregation like a prion.

Matthew C. Kiernan

Matthew C. Kiernan, also known as Matthew Kiernan, is an Australian neurologist and CEO of Neuroscience Research Australia, known for ALS research and the Sheila Essey Award.

Matthew Hotopf

Matthew Hotopf is a British psychiatric epidemiologist and consultant liaison psychiatrist at King's College London, known for Lancet studies on chronic fatigue syndrome and Iraq veterans.

Maurizio Fava

Maurizio Fava is an Italian-trained psychiatrist who chairs the Mass General Brigham Department of Psychiatry and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2023.

Max Nonne

Max Nonne (1861–1959) was a German neurologist in Hamburg who built the Eppendorf neurological university clinic, introduced the Nonne-Apelt cerebrospinal-fluid test, and dominated the World War I debate on war neuroses.

Mayowa Ojo Owolabi

Mayowa Ojo Owolabi is a Nigerian professor of medicine and neurology at the University of Ibadan, elected to the US National Academy of Medicine in 2025.

Mel Β. Feany

Mel B. Feany is a physician scientist and Professor of Pathology at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known for building fruit fly models of Parkinson's disease.

Melanie Pellecchia

Melanie Pellecchia is an American psychologist and implementation scientist at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia who studies community delivery of early autism interventions and received the 2025 PECASE award.

Melissa J. Spencer

Melissa J. Spencer is a scientist who is Professor of Neurology at UCLA, directs its Neuromuscular Program, studies muscular dystrophies including Duchenne, and received a 2001 PECASE award.

Melvin H. Van Woert

Melvin H. Van Woert, also published as M. H. Van Woert, is a neurologist and neuropharmacologist known for the 1967 Brookhaven paper introducing high-dose D,L-dopa therapy for Parkinson's disease.

Merit Cudkowicz

Merit E. Cudkowicz is an American neurologist who leads ALS research at Massachusetts General Hospital, where she is Chief of Neurology and directs the HEALEY ALS Platform Trial.

Michael A. Moskowitz

Michael A. Moskowitz is an American physician-scientist and professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, known for discovering the trigeminovascular system behind migraine pain.

Michael Chopp

Michael Chopp is an American neuroscientist who has led stroke research at Henry Ford Health since 1983, showing that transplanted bone marrow stromal cells stimulate the injured brain's own repair.

Michael D. Greicius

Michael D. Greicius, also known as Michael Greicius, is a Stanford neurologist who studies Alzheimer's disease through brain imaging and genetics, and founded the Stanford Center for Memory Disorders.

Michael D. Taylor

Michael D. Taylor is a Canadian pediatric neurosurgeon who spent 18 years at Toronto's SickKids before moving in 2023 to Baylor College of Medicine, known for showing medulloblastoma is four distinct diseases.

Michael R. Phillips

Michael R. Phillips (费立鹏, Fei Lipeng) is a Canadian psychiatrist and epidemiologist who has worked in China for over 35 years, documenting its suicide rate.

Michael R. Wilson

Michael R. Wilson is an American neurologist and physician-scientist at UCSF who developed metagenomic sequencing of spinal fluid as a diagnostic test for meningitis and encephalitis.

Michael S. Okun

Michael S. Okun is an American neurologist and movement-disorders specialist at the University of Florida, known for deep-brain stimulation research in Parkinson's disease and Tourette syndrome.