Researchers in clinical neuroscience, neurology, and psychiatry research

Christopher E. Henderson

Christopher E. Henderson is a Cambridge-trained neuroscientist who established GDNF as a motor neuron survival factor and built early human stem cell models of ALS.

Chrysostomos P. Panayiotopoulos

Chrysostomos P. Panayiotopoulos, known as Tomis, was a Greek-born neurologist at St Thomas' Hospital in London who described Panayiotopoulos syndrome, a benign childhood autonomic epilepsy.

Claudia F. Lucchinetti is an American neurologist and neuroimmunologist whose research defined the pathological heterogeneity of multiple sclerosis lesions and aquaporin-4 autoimmunity in neuromyelitis optica.

Claudia Sommer

Claudia Sommer, born 1958, is a German neurologist and pain researcher, senior professor at Universitätsklinikum Würzburg and former president of the International Association for the Study of Pain.

Clifford R. Jack

Clifford R. Jack is a neuroradiologist and Alzheimer's researcher at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, known for the 2009 dynamic biomarkers model and the 2016 A/T/N classification.

Clive Ballard

Clive Ballard is a British old age psychiatrist and dementia researcher, Professor of Age Related Diseases at the University of Exeter since 2016 after holding a chair at King's College London.

Constantin von Economo

Baron Constantin von Economo von San Serff (1876–1931) was an Austrian psychiatrist and neurologist who defined encephalitis lethargica in 1917 and co-authored the 1925 atlas of the human cerebral cortex.

Constantin von Monakow

Constantin von Monakow (1853–1930) was a Russian-born Swiss neurologist and neuroanatomist who directed the Brain Anatomy Institute in Zurich and introduced diaschisis, used in modern stroke research.

Costantino Iadecola

Costantino Iadecola is an Italian-born American neurologist who directs the Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute at Weill Cornell Medicine and pioneered the neurovascular unit concept.

Dag Aarsland

Dag Aarsland is a Norwegian old age psychiatrist and dementia researcher who is professor and head of the Department of Old Age Psychiatry at King's College London.

Dale E. Bredesen

Dale E. Bredesen, also known as Dale Bredesen, is an American physician-scientist known for research on programmed cell death and the ReCODE protocol, a contested program for cognitive decline.

Dan J. Stein

Dan J. Stein (1962–2025) was a South African psychiatrist at the University of Cape Town known for research on obsessive-compulsive disorder and global mental health.

Daniel B. Drachman

Daniel B. Drachman (1932–2022) was an American neurologist and neuroscientist at Johns Hopkins University who established myasthenia gravis as an autoimmune disease, paving the way for plasmapheresis as its first effective treatment.

Daniel F. Hanley

Daniel F. Hanley, also published as Daniel Hanley, is an American neurologist at Johns Hopkins who leads large randomized clinical trials in brain injury, intracerebral hemorrhage, and COVID-19 convalescent plasma.

Daniel Friedman (American neurologist)

Daniel Friedman is an American neurologist and epileptologist, Professor of Neurology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, who directs the Division of Epilepsy at NYU Langone and researches cannabinoids, seizure-detection wearables, and SUDEP.

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Daniel H. Lowenstein

Daniel H. Lowenstein is an American neurologist and epileptologist at the University of California, San Francisco, known for research on status epilepticus, large-scale epilepsy genetics programs, and medical education reform.

Daniel S. Reich

Daniel S. Reich is an American neurologist and neuroradiologist who directs the Translational Neuroradiology Section at NIH's NINDS and is known for advanced MRI studies of multiple sclerosis.

Daniele Piomelli

Daniele Piomelli is a neuroscientist and pharmacologist who directs the UCI Center for the Study of Cannabis and studies endocannabinoid signaling, developing FAAH inhibitors with anti-anxiety-like effects.

Darryl C. De Vivo

Darryl C. De Vivo is an American child neurologist and neurometabolic physician-scientist, Sidney Carter Professor Emeritus at Columbia University, known for identifying Glut1 deficiency syndrome and co-authoring the 2017 nusinersen trial.

David A. Bennett

David A. Bennett is an American neurologist who directs the Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center in Chicago, known for showing that most dementia arises from mixed brain pathologies.

David A. Chad

David A. Chad is a neuromuscular neurologist from Montreal who built and led the University of Massachusetts Neuromuscular Medicine Division for 26 years, until 2008.

Sep 17, 2026

David Alastair Compston

David Alastair Compston, also known as David Alastair Standish Compston, is a British neurologist, Professor Emeritus at Cambridge, known for quantifying multiple sclerosis genetics and introducing alemtuzumab therapy.

David Bodian

David Bodian (1910–1992) was an American neuroscientist at Johns Hopkins whose research laid the groundwork for the Salk and Sabin polio vaccines, and who created the Bodian nerve stain.

David C. Poskanzer

David C. Poskanzer was an American neurologist and epidemiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known for his 1971 paper linking DES exposure to vaginal cancer.

David Camarillo

David Camarillo is an American bioengineer and associate professor at Stanford University who studies concussion biomechanics, known for instrumented mouthguards that measure head impacts and brain strain.

Sep 17, 2026

David Cella

David Cella is a clinical psychologist at Northwestern University known for building the science of patient-reported outcomes and elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2019.

David Eidelberg

David Eidelberg is an American neurologist and neuroimaging researcher, professor and neuroscience center director at the Feinstein Institutes, known for network imaging biomarkers in Parkinson's disease.

David F. Horrobin

David F. Horrobin (1939–2003) was a British physiologist and pharmaceutical entrepreneur known for the prostaglandin–schizophrenia hypothesis, his essential fatty acid research, and his critique of grant peer review.

David Ferrier

Sir David Ferrier (1843–1928) was a Scottish-born London neurologist whose electrical stimulation experiments on monkeys mapped the motor and sensory centers of the cerebral cortex.