Heiko Braak: German anatomist who proposed the Braak hypothesis of Parkinson's disease, the idea that Parkinson's disease is a prion like disorder that begins in the gut.
Paul Broca: French anatomist who studied individuals with complex speech disorders. Broca's aphasia is named after his research.
Bryan J. Jennett: Scottish neurosurgeon who worked to developed the Glasgow coma scale.
Heinrich Kluver: German - American psychologist. Best known for characterizing the fear response and for his experiments in the psychoactive effects of mescaline.
Otto Loewi: German pharmacologist. Discovered the role of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine in maintaining heart rate.
Brenda Milner: British - Canadian psychiatrist. Considered to be the founder of neuropsychology.
Antonio Egaz Moniz: Portuguese neurologist. First person to develop the lobotomy as a tool for psychosurgery.
Franz Nissl: German neuropathologist who developed the Nissl stain, which stains endoplasmic reticulum of neurons.
Stanley Prusiner: American neurologist who first characterized prions, proteinous infectious agents that are responsible for diseases such as bovine spongiform encephalophathy and kuru.
Alexander Shulgin: American pharmacologist and chemist who synthesized several classes of psychedelics. He is credited with discovering MDMA.
Solomon Snyder: American pharmacologist who developed an assay using radioactively labeled ligands to bind to opioid receptors.
Larry Squire: American scientist who worked with many individuals with amnesia.
Jean Talairach: French neurosurgeon who developed a coordinate system for identifying specific parts of the brain during surgery.
Graham Teasdale: Scottish neurosurgeon who was a coauthor in the process of developing a method of assessing consciousness called the Glasgow coma scale in 1974.
Endel Tulving: Estonian-Canadian neuropsychologist who researched the types of explicit memory. He argued that episodic memory is different from semantic memory.