Researchers in clinical neuroscience, neurology, and psychiatry research

Michael S. Wolfe

Michael S. Wolfe is an American medicinal chemist and neuroscientist known for discovering γ-secretase, the amyloid-producing enzyme in Alzheimer's disease, and teaches at the University of Kansas.

Michael Sendtner is a German cellular and molecular neuroscientist and physician who heads the Institute of Clinical Neurobiology at Universitätsklinikum Würzburg, studying neurotrophic factors in ALS and spinal muscular atrophy.

Michael Sharpe (liaison psychiatrist)

Michael Sharpe is a British liaison psychiatrist and Emeritus Professor of Psychological Medicine at Oxford, known for research on functional somatic symptoms and chronic fatigue syndrome.

Michael Simon Avidan

Michael Simon Avidan is a South African-born anesthesiologist and perioperative outcomes researcher who leads anesthesiology at Washington University and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2023.

Michael Swash

Michael Swash (born 1939) is a British neurologist known for work on diagnosing ALS, or motor neuron disease, and for founding the neurophysiological study of the pelvic floor.

Michael T. Heneka

Michael T. Heneka is a German neurologist and clinician-scientist known for research on neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's disease, and director of the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine since 2022.

Michael Tymianski

Michael Tymianski is a Canadian neurosurgeon-scientist at the University of Toronto and University Health Network whose laboratory identified the PSD95 protein as a mediator of stroke damage.

Michael W. Weiner

Michael W. Weiner is a UCSF physician-scientist who leads the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, the largest longitudinal biomarker study of Alzheimer's disease, launched in 2004.

Michael Weller

Michael Weller is a German-born neuro-oncologist, professor and clinic director of neurology at University Hospital Zurich since 2008, known for phase III glioblastoma trials and EANO glioma guidelines.

Michel D. Ferrari

Michel D. Ferrari, also known as MD Ferrari, is a Dutch neurologist born in 1954 who identified the first migraine gene and led key triptan and CGRP treatment trials.

Michel Goedert

Michel Goedert, born 1954 in Luxembourg, is a neuroscientist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge who identified tau and alpha-synuclein as the filament proteins of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases.

Milton Alter

Milton Alter, known in Hebrew as Meir Alter (1929–2016), was an American neurologist and neuroepidemiologist who chaired Neurology at Temple University and was a founder of neuroepidemiology.

Milton H. Erickson

Milton H. Erickson (1901–1980), American psychiatrist, father of modern clinical hypnosis and founder of Ericksonian hypnotherapy; permissive, indirect, utilization-based hypnosis; founded the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis; influenced brief, strategic, and solution-focused therapy.

Ming T. Tsuang

Ming T. Tsuang, also known as Ming Tsuang, was a Taiwanese-American psychiatrist and psychiatric geneticist whose family, twin, and adoption studies established schizophrenia as partly genetic.

Mitchell S.V. Elkind

Mitchell S.V. Elkind is an American neurologist and stroke epidemiologist, Columbia professor emeritus and American Heart Association chief science officer, who led the Northern Manhattan Study and the ARCADIA trial.

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Mogens Schou

Mogens Schou (1918–2005) was a Danish medical researcher at Aarhus University who established lithium as the first proven prophylactic treatment in psychiatry through trials from 1954 to 1970.

Monique M.B. Breteler

Monique M.B. Breteler, also known as Monique Breteler, is a Dutch neuroepidemiologist who built the Rotterdam Study and, since 2011, directs Population Health Sciences at the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases in Bonn.

Moses Rodriguez

Moses Rodriguez is an American neurologist and immunologist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, known for multiple sclerosis research and for identifying rHIgM22, an antibody developed to promote myelin repair.

Murray B. Stein

Murray B. Stein is an American psychiatrist and researcher at the University of California San Diego known for research on anxiety disorders, PTSD, and psychiatric genetics.

Mustafa Sahin

Mustafa Sahin is a Turkish-American clinical neurologist and neuroscientist who chairs Neurology at Boston Children's Hospital and studies the neurobiology of autism and tuberous sclerosis.

Myrna M. Weissman

Myrna M. Weissman is an American psychiatric epidemiologist at Columbia University who co-developed interpersonal psychotherapy and has run a three-generation study of depression risk for four decades.

Nagagopal Venna

Nagagopal Venna is a neurologist and neuroimmunologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, known for early work on HIV neurological complications and rare autoimmune disorders.

Nancy C. Andreasen

Nancy C. Andreasen, also known as Nancy Andreasen, is an American psychiatrist and neuroscientist at the University of Iowa who pioneered using MRI to study schizophrenia and won the 2000 National Medal of Science.

Oct 10, 2026

Nancy Rothwell

Nancy Rothwell is a British physiologist and neuroscientist known for research on brain injury and stroke, and president of the University of Manchester from 2010 to 2024.

Naomi Breslau

Naomi Breslau (1932–2018) was an Israeli-born American psychiatric epidemiologist at Henry Ford Health System and Michigan State University who showed PTSD occurs in ordinary urban populations, not only veterans.

Ned H. Kalin

Ned H. Kalin is an American psychiatrist and neuroscientist, chair of psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin since 1991, known for research on the brain mechanisms of anxiety.

Neil H. Raskin

Neil H. Raskin (1935–2026) was an American neurologist and headache medicine researcher, professor emeritus at UCSF, known for describing hypnic and thunderclap headache, the Raskin Protocol for migraine, and the textbook Headache.

Neil R. Cashman

Neil R. Cashman is a Canadian neurologist and professor at the University of British Columbia known for showing that misfolded SOD1 spreads in a prion-like manner in ALS.

Neil Scolding

Neil J. Scolding is a British clinical neuroscientist and neurologist known for multiple sclerosis research and adult stem-cell therapy, and the first Burden Professor of Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Bristol, from 1999.