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Researchers in clinical neuroscience, neurology, and psychiatry research

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Suzanne M. de la Monte

Suzanne M. de la Monte is an American neuropathologist and physician-scientist at Brown University and the Providence VA Medical Center, known for coining "Type 3 diabetes" in Alzheimer's research.

Takaomi C. Saido

Takaomi C. Saido (西道 隆臣) is a Japanese pharmacologist and neuroscientist who has led a team at RIKEN since 1997, known for identifying neprilysin as the principal amyloid-β-degrading enzyme in the brain.

Takeshi Iwatsubo

Takeshi Iwatsubo (岩坪 威) is a Japanese neurologist and neuroscientist known for showing that amyloid-β 42 is the first amyloid species deposited in Alzheimer's disease brains.

Tanuja Chitnis

Tanuja Chitnis is a neurologist and Harvard Medical School professor specializing in multiple sclerosis, known for establishing pediatric MS as a field and leading the PARADIGMS trial.

Ted M. Dawson

Ted M. Dawson, also known as Ted Dawson, is an American neurologist and neuroscientist at Johns Hopkins University known for research on Parkinson's disease, nitric oxide signaling, and parthanatos.

Teepu Siddique

Teepu Siddique is a neurologist and neurogeneticist at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine whose laboratory established the genetic basis of ALS, linking familial ALS to chromosome 21 in 1991.

Thomas Brushfield

Thomas Brushfield (1858–1937) was an English psychiatrist in intellectual disability, remembered for Brushfield spots, the iris sign of Down syndrome, described in his 1924 paper.

Thomas G. Brott

Thomas G. Brott is an American neurologist and stroke researcher who designed the NIH Stroke Scale, pioneered tPA for stroke, and led the CREST trials.

Thomas Gasser

Thomas Gasser is a neurologist who directs neurodegenerative disease research at the Hertie Institute in Tübingen and shared the 2024 Breakthrough Prize for identifying Parkinson's risk genes LRRK2 and GBA1.

Thomas Klockgether

Thomas Klockgether, born 1956 in Cologne, is a German neurologist known for spinocerebellar ataxia research; he was Chair of Neurology at the University of Bonn from 1998 to 2024.

Thomas P. Hackett

Thomas P. Hackett (1928–1988) was an American consultation-liaison psychiatrist who led Massachusetts General Hospital's psychiatry service, studied the psychology of heart disease and cancer, and held Harvard's Eben S. Draper Professorship.

Thomas R. Insel

Thomas R. Insel is an American neuroscientist and psychiatrist who directed the National Institute of Mental Health from 2002 to 2015 and later led mental health at Google's Verily.

Tibor Harkany

Tibor Harkany, born 1972, is a Hungarian molecular neurobiologist who studies how the brain develops, focusing on the hypothalamus and endocannabinoids, and heads Molecular Neurosciences in Vienna.

Tina Goldstein

Tina R. Goldstein is an American clinical psychologist and researcher at the University of Pittsburgh who studies adolescent mood disorders and suicide, and received the Presidential Early Career Award.

Todd E. Golde

Todd E. Golde, also written Todd Golde, is an American neuroscientist and physician-scientist who studies Alzheimer's disease and directs the Emory Center for Neurodegenerative Disease.

Tony Wyss-Coray

Tony Wyss-Coray is a Stanford neuroscientist who showed that blood-borne factors from young organisms can rejuvenate old brains, and co-founded the biotechnology company Alkahest in 2014.

Tora Bonnevie

Tora Bonnevie is a Norwegian physician-neuroscientist and associate professor at NTNU in Trondheim who studies memory, space, and time in the human brain, including early Alzheimer's disease.

Torbjörn Tomson

Torbjörn Tomson is a Swedish neurologist and epileptologist, senior professor at Karolinska Institutet, who leads the EURAP pregnancy registry and studies SUDEP and antiepileptic drug safety in pregnancy.

Tracey Cho

Tracey A. Cho is an American neurologist and Clinical Professor of Neurology at the University of Iowa, where he directs the Neuroimmunology Division and helped define the field of neurorheumatology.

Tracy L. Bale

Tracy L. Bale is an American neuroscientist who studies how stress increases neuropsychiatric disease risk across the lifespan, focusing on sex differences; elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2024.

Tudor G. Jovin

Tudor Jovin is a vascular neurologist and neurointerventionalist, Chair of Neurology at Cooper University Health Care, known for leading the DAWN, REVASCAT, and BAOCHE thrombectomy trials.

Tyrone Cannon

Tyrone D. Cannon is a clinical neuroscientist, the Clark L. Hull Professor of Psychology and Professor of Psychiatry at Yale, known for predicting psychosis in at-risk youth.

Ugo Cerletti

Ugo Cerletti (1877–1963) was an Italian neurologist and psychiatrist who, with Lucio Bini, introduced electroconvulsive therapy in Rome in 1938, after observing pigs stunned at a slaughterhouse recover safely.

Urs Fischer (neurologist)

Urs Fischer is a Swiss neurologist, Director of Neurology at University Hospital Bern since 2024, and principal investigator of the international stroke trials SWIFT DIRECT, ELAN, SWITCH, and DISTAL.

V. Wee Yong

V. Wee Yong, also known as Voon Wee Yong, is a neuroimmunologist and professor at the University of Calgary known for the 2017 minocycline trial delaying multiple sclerosis.

Valery L. Feigin

Valery L. Feigin is a New Zealand-based neurologist and neuroepidemiologist, Professor and Director of the National Institute for Stroke and Applied Neurosciences at Auckland University of Technology.

Valina Dawson

Valina L. Dawson is a neuroscientist and professor at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine known for identifying and naming parthanatos, a neuronal cell death pathway implicated in Parkinson's disease.

Vanda A. Lennon

Vanda A. Lennon is an Australian-born neuroimmunologist at Mayo Clinic who demonstrated that Lambert-Eaton syndrome is an antibody-mediated disorder and founded its autoimmune neurology testing service.

Verne S. Caviness

Verne S. Caviness (1934–2021) was an American child neurologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard, known for a 1975 mechanical model of cortical folding and MRI-based brain morphometry.

Victor Dubowitz

Victor Dubowitz (born 1931) is a South African-born British pediatric neurologist known for Dubowitz syndrome, the Dubowitz neonatal assessments, and a half-century of work on childhood muscle disease.