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Richard H. Mattson
Richard H. Mattson, born in 1931, is an American neurologist and epileptologist at Yale School of Medicine who directed the two largest VA antiepileptic drug trials.
Richard M. Ransohoff
Richard M. Ransohoff is an American neurologist and neuroinflammation researcher who spent 30 years at the Cleveland Clinic and won the 2012 John Dystel Prize for multiple sclerosis research.
Richard Mayeux
Richard Mayeux is an American neurologist and genetic epidemiologist at Columbia University who studies the epidemiology and genetics of Alzheimer's disease, leading the WHICAP cohort since 1989.
Richard S. Finkel
Richard S. Finkel is an American pediatric neurologist who directs the Center for Experimental Neurotherapeutics at St. Jude and led the nusinersen and risdiplam trials in spinal muscular atrophy.
Richard S. Schottenfeld
Richard S. Schottenfeld is an American psychiatrist and addiction-medicine researcher known for clinical trials of buprenorphine and methadone for opioid dependence, first at Yale and since 2017 at Howard University.
Rik Ossenkoppele
Rik Ossenkoppele is a Dutch neuroscientist and associate professor at Amsterdam UMC who studies Alzheimer's disease with tau and amyloid PET imaging, leading the ERC-funded TAU-NOW project.
Robert A. Rosenheck
Robert A. Rosenheck is an American psychiatrist and Yale School of Medicine professor emeritus who spent 22 years directing the VA Northeast Program Evaluation Center, evaluating mental health programs for veterans.
Robert C. Griggs
Robert C. Griggs is an American neuromuscular neurologist and longtime University of Rochester professor who led federally funded trials in rare muscle diseases and edited the journal Neurology.
Robert Foster Kennedy
Robert Foster Kennedy (1884–1952) was a Belfast-born neurologist who described Foster Kennedy syndrome in 1911, served in World War I, and led neurology at Cornell and Bellevue Hospital in New York.
Robert Freedman (psychiatrist)
Robert Freedman is an American psychiatrist and schizophrenia researcher at the University of Colorado, elected to the National Academy of Medicine and known for the P50 sensory gating endophenotype.
Robert G. Hart
Robert G. Hart is a stroke neurologist at McMaster University and the Population Health Research Institute who led the SPAF trials and the NAVIGATE-ESUS study of embolic stroke.
Robert H. Baloh
Robert H. Baloh is an American neurologist known for research on genetic and immune mechanisms of ALS and frontotemporal dementia, now global head of neuroscience at Novartis.
Robert H. Belmaker
Robert H. Belmaker (born 1947) is an Israeli psychiatrist and mood-disorders researcher who held Israel's first named Chair of Psychiatry at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
Robert H. Brown Jr.
Robert H. Brown Jr. is an American neurologist and neuroscientist at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, known for discovering the first ALS gene, SOD1, in 1993.
Robert Howard (psychiatrist)
Robert Howard, also published as Robert J. Howard, is an old-age psychiatrist, Professor of Old Age Psychiatry at University College London since 2015, previously at King's College London.
Robert J. Waldinger
Robert J. Waldinger is an American psychiatrist and Zen teacher who directs the Harvard Study of Adult Development, the longest-running study of adult life, since 2003.
Robert Katzman
Robert Katzman (1925–2008) was an American neurologist and Alzheimer's researcher at UCSD, best known for his 1976 editorial redefining senile dementia as a disease, not normal aging.
Robert M. Post
Robert M. Post is an American psychiatrist known for applying the kindling hypothesis to mood disorders and for carbamazepine trials in bipolar illness, after 35 years at the NIMH.
Robert S. Schwab
Robert S. Schwab (1903 or 1904 – 1972) was an American neurologist who founded the first clinical EEG laboratory in the United States, at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Robert Vassar
Robert Vassar is a neuroscientist at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine who co-discovered BACE1, the β-secretase enzyme initiating β-amyloid production in Alzheimer's disease, in 1999.
Robin Carhart‐Harris
Robin Carhart-Harris is a British psychopharmacologist who studies psychedelic drugs and psilocybin therapy for depression, and has led psychedelic research centers at Imperial College London and UCSF.
Robin Franklin
Robin James Milroy Franklin, born in 1962, is a British stem cell biologist known for remyelination research, formerly a Cambridge professor and now at Altos Labs.
Robin Lester Carhart-Harris
Robin Lester Carhart-Harris is a British psychopharmacologist known for the entropic brain hypothesis, early brain-imaging studies of psychedelics, and psilocybin therapy trials for depression at Imperial College London and UCSF.
Rodney Craig Scott
Rodney Craig Scott (Rod C. Scott) is a pediatric epileptologist and physician-scientist who leads the NLSTEPSS childhood status epilepticus study and a 2025 NIH neurostimulation award.
Roland Martinꝉ
Roland Martin is a neuroimmunologist and physician-scientist known for his work on the immunology of multiple sclerosis, and professor emeritus at the University of Zurich.
Ronald C. Kessler
Ronald C. Kessler is an American psychiatric epidemiologist, McNeil Family Professor at Harvard Medical School, who led the US National Comorbidity Survey of mental disorders.
Ronald C. Petersen
Ronald C. Petersen is an American neurologist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, best known for establishing mild cognitive impairment as a recognized diagnostic category.
Ronald Dubner
Ronald Dubner (1934–2023) was an American pain researcher who led NIH's first pain research laboratory and later chaired pain sciences at the University of Maryland.
Ronald G. Haller
Ronald G. Haller is a neurologist and professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas who directs a neuromuscular center and studies metabolic myopathies, including McArdle disease.
Rosalind W. Picard
Rosalind W. Picard is an American scientist and engineer at the MIT Media Lab who founded the field of affective computing and co-founded the companies Affectiva and Empatica.