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Neurologists
Neurologists: specialist physicians who diagnose and treat nervous system disorders (brain, spinal cord, nerves, muscles) non-surgically; trained via neurology residency, ABPN-certified in the US, distinct from neurosurgeons and psychiatrists.
Nevzat Tarhan
Nevzat Tarhan, born in Merzifon, Turkey in 1952, is a Turkish psychiatrist who founded NPİSTANBUL Hospital in 2006 and established Üsküdar University in Istanbul in 2011.
Nicholas D. Schiff
Nicholas D. Schiff, also published as Nicholas Schiff, is a neurologist and neuroscientist at Weill Cornell Medical College known for research on disorders of consciousness after severe brain injury.
Nicholas K. Gonatas
Nicholas K. Gonatas (1930-2014) was a Greek-born American physician-scientist in neuropathology and cell biology, a University of Pennsylvania professor who described four congenital myopathies and studied the Golgi apparatus in motor neuron disease.
Nicholas Wood
Nicholas Wood is a British neurologist and human geneticist, Galton Professor of Genetics at University College London, known for identifying Parkinson's disease genes including PINK1 and LRRK2.
Nigel W. Bunnett
Nigel W. Bunnett is a neuroscientist and pharmacologist at New York University known for work on protease-activated receptors, neurogenic inflammation, and endosomal signaling in chronic pain.
Norman Geschwind
Norman Geschwind (1926–1984) was an American neurologist and Harvard professor who founded modern behavioral neurology; his 1965 papers on disconnexion syndromes and his work on brain asymmetry shaped clinical practice for two decades.
O. Carter Snead
O. Carter Snead is a Canadian pediatric neurologist who led neurology at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto and created the GHB rat model of absence epilepsy.
Oded Abramsky
Oded Abramsky is an Israeli neurologist and neuroimmunologist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, known for establishing neuroimmunology as a discipline and pioneering stem cell therapy trials in multiple sclerosis and ALS.
Ole A. Andreassen
Ole A. Andreassen, often cited as Ole Andreassen, is a Norwegian psychiatrist and geneticist at the University of Oslo studying the genetics of severe mental disorders.
Oleh Hornykiewicz
Oleh Hornykiewicz (1926–2020) was an Austrian pharmacologist who discovered dopamine deficiency in the brains of Parkinson's disease patients and initiated L-DOPA therapy, the foundation of dopamine replacement treatment, earning the Wolf Prize in 1979.
Oliver Howes
Oliver D. Howes is a British psychiatrist-scientist who heads Psychosis Studies at King's College London and is known for PET imaging of dopamine in schizophrenia.
Olivier Rascol
Olivier Rascol is a French neurologist and clinical pharmacologist, Professor of Clinical Pharmacology at Toulouse University Hospital since 1993, known for Parkinson's disease trials including the 2000 ropinirole study and the 2024 LIXIPARK trial.
Orrin Devinsky
Orrin Devinsky is an American neurologist and epileptologist who directs the NYU Comprehensive Epilepsy Center and led the trials behind the first FDA-approved cannabidiol epilepsy therapy.
Oskar Kohnstamm
Oskar Kohnstamm (1871–1917) was a German neurologist and psychiatrist who demonstrated the involuntary arm movement called the Kohnstamm phenomenon and ran a sanatorium at Königstein.
Oskar Vogt
Oskar Vogt (1870–1959) was a German neurologist who, with his wife Cécile, built the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Brain Research in Berlin, mapped the cerebral cortex, and examined Lenin's brain.
Otfrid Foerster
Otfrid Foerster (1873–1941) was a German neurologist and self-taught neurosurgeon in Breslau who devised posterior rhizotomy for spasticity, mapped the human dermatomes, and pioneered awake cortical stimulation surgery for epilepsy.
Ottavio Arancio
Ottavio Arancio is an Italian-born American physician-scientist and cellular neurobiologist, professor at Columbia University's Taub Institute, known for pioneering study of synaptic dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease.
Otto Binswanger
Otto Binswanger (1852–1929) was a Swiss psychiatrist who directed the Jena psychiatric clinic from 1882 to 1919, treated Friedrich Nietzsche, and described Binswanger's disease in 1894.
Oye Gureje
Oye Gureje, full name Oyewusi Gureje, is a Nigerian psychiatrist and psychiatric epidemiologist, Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Ibadan, who led the Ibadan Study of Ageing.
P. James B. Dyck
P. James B. Dyck is an American neurologist and Professor emeritus at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, whose research centers on peripheral neuropathy, diabetic neuropathy, and Guillain-Barre syndrome.
Pablo A. Celnik
Pablo A. Celnik is an Argentine-born physician-scientist in neurorehabilitation, CEO of Shirley Ryan AbilityLab in Chicago since 2023, known for using noninvasive brain stimulation to study motor learning.
Pamela J. Shaw
Pamela J. Shaw, also published as Pamela Shaw, is a British neurologist and motor neuron disease researcher who directs the Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience.
Paolo Calabresi
Paolo Calabresi is an Italian neurologist and full professor at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Rome, known for work on striatal synaptic plasticity in Parkinson's disease.
Paolo Fusar-Poli
Paolo Fusar-Poli is an Italian psychiatrist and Professor of Preventive Psychiatry at King's College London, known for research on detecting and preventing psychosis before the first episode.
Patricia K. Kuhl
Patricia K. Kuhl is a University of Washington scientist known for finding that babies can discern all the world's speech sounds, a skill that narrows in the first year.
Patrick Aebischer
Patrick Aebischer, born 1954 in Fribourg, is a Swiss neuroscientist and physician who was president of EPFL from 2000 to 2016 and pioneered encapsulated-cell gene therapy for ALS.
Patrick D. Wall
Patrick D. Wall, also known as P. D. Wall, was a British neurophysiologist best known for co-proposing the gate control theory of pain, published in Science in 1965.
Patrick Kwan
Patrick Kwan is an Australian neurologist and epileptologist, Professor of Neurology at Monash University in Melbourne, who chaired the International League Against Epilepsy task force that produced the first consensus definition of drug-resistant epilepsy in 2010.
Patrick W. Mantyh
Patrick W. Mantyh is a neuroscientist and pharmacologist at the University of Arizona who built the first animal model of bone cancer pain and showed in 2000 that osteoprotegerin blocks it.