Margaret Stratford Livingstone is the Takeda Professor of Neurobiology in the Department of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School in the field of visual perception. She authored the book Vision and Art:The Biology of Seeing. She was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2015 and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2020.
Korbinian Brodmann was a German neuropsychiatrist who is known for mapping the cerebral cortex and defining 52 distinct regions,known as Brodmann areas,based on their cytoarchitectonic (histological) characteristics.
The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) is a professional society,headquartered in Washington,D.C.,for basic scientists and physicians around the world whose research is focused on the study of the brain and nervous system. It is especially well known for its annual meeting,consistently one of the largest scientific conferences in the world.
Aristides Azevedo Pacheco Leão was a Brazilian neurophysiologist,researcher and university professor.
Carla J. Shatz is an American neurobiologist and an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,the American Philosophical Society,the National Academy of Sciences,and the National Academy of Medicine.
Theresa A. Jones is a researcher and professor at the University of Texas at Austin and the Institute for Neuroscience. Her interests are in neural plasticity across the lifespan,motor skill learning,mechanisms of brain and behavioral adaptation to brain damage,and glial-neuronal interactions. Her research is on the brain changes following stroke,in particular rehabilitation strategies and the brain changes associated with them. She primarily tests rats and uses the Endothelin-1 stroke model. Her most recent work has expanded into the field of microstimulation mapping of the rat cortex.
Patricia Goldman-Rakic was an American professor of neuroscience,neurology,psychiatry and psychology at Yale University School of Medicine. She pioneered multidisciplinary research of the prefrontal cortex and working memory.
Vivien Alice Casagrande was a professor in the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
Angela Jane Roskams is a neuroscientist at the University of British Columbia (UBC) with a joint appointment in Neurosurgery at the University of Washington. She is professor at the Centre for Brain Health at UBC,and directed the laboratory of neural regeneration and brain repair,before winding down her lab in 2015–16 to become Executive Director of the Allen Institute for Brain Science,and a leader in the Open Science movement. After leading Strategy and Alliances for the Allen institute's multiple branches,she has become an influencer in the fields of neuroinformatics,public-private partnerships,and Open Data Sharing.
Sheila Nirenberg is an American neuroscientist and professor at Weill Cornell Medical College. She works in the field of neural coding,developing new kinds of prosthetic devices that can communicate directly with the brain,and new kinds of smart robots. She is a recipient of a MacArthur “genius”award and has been the subject of,or featured in,several documentaries for her technology for treating blindness.
The Karl Spencer Lashley Award is awarded by The American Philosophical Society as a recognition of research on the integrative neuroscience of behavior. The award was established in 1957 by a gift from Dr. Karl Spencer Lashley.
Marian Cleeves Diamond was an American scientist and educator who is considered one of the founders of modern neuroscience. She and her team were the first to publish evidence that the brain can change with experience and improve with enrichment,what is now called neuroplasticity. Her research on the brain of Albert Einstein helped fuel the ongoing scientific revolution in understanding the roles of glial cells in the brain. She was a professor of anatomy at the University of California,Berkeley. Other published research explored differences between the cerebral cortex of male and female rats,the link between positive thinking and immune health,and the role of women in science.
Christopher L.-H. Huang FRSB is professor of cell physiology at the University of Cambridge.
Jennifer S. Lund is a distinguished anatomist who provided insight and research to the organization of feedforward and feedback circuits in the neocortex,observed the pruning of dendritic spines in the primate visual system,and helped describe the patterns of lateral connectivity in the cerebral cortex.
Rajiv Ratan is an Indian American academic,professor,administrator and scientist based in New York. He is the Burke Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience at Weill Cornell Medicine. Since 2003,he has served as the executive director of Burke Neurological Institute and as a member of the Council of Affiliated Deans of Weill Cornell Medicine.
Hilary Patricia Blumberg is a medical doctor and the inaugural John and Hope Furth Professor of Psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine. She is also a professor of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging,and works in the Child Study Center at Yale where she has been a faculty member since 1998. She attended Harvard University as an undergraduate,and completed medical school at Cornell University Medical College (1990). She completed her medical internship and psychiatry residency at Cornell University Medical College/New York Hospital,and her neuroimaging fellowship training at Cornell University,Weill Medical College. She has received the 2006 National Alliance for Research in Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD) and the Gerald L. Klerman Award for Clinical Research. Blumberg has authored a number of scientific articles that focus on bipolar disorder,neuroimaging,and effects of specific genetic variations,developmental trajectories and structure-function relationships.
Jeffrey D. Macklis is an American neuroscientist. He is the Max and Anne Wien Professor of Life Sciences in the Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology and Center for Brain Science at Harvard University,Professor of Neurology [Neuroscience] at Harvard Medical School,and on the Executive Committee and a Member of the Principal Faculty of the Neuroscience / Nervous System Diseases Program at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute.
HollisT. Cline is an American neuroscientist and the Director of the Dorris Neuroscience Center at the Scripps Research Institute in California. Her research focuses on the impact of sensory experience on brain development and plasticity.
Martin Johannes Lauritzen is a Danish neuroscientist. He is a Professor of Translational Neurobiology at the Department of Neuroscience,University of Copenhagen,Denmark and also a Professor of Clinical Neurophysiology at the Department of Neurophysiology,Rigshospitalet.
