Neurologists and Biological Psychiatry Pioneers

led to groundbreaking realizations of the localization of brain function

He is best known for his research on Broca's area, a region of the frontal lobe

pioneer in the study of the localization of mental functions in the brain

Theodor Hermann Meynert (German: [ˈmaɪnɐt]; 15 June 1833-31 May 1892) was a German-Austrian psychiatrist, neuropathologist, and anatomist, born in Dresden.

one of the 19th century's leading neurologists

was a German-born American neurologist

was a German psychiatrist known largely for his writing on the diagnosis and understanding of schizophrenia

Considered a pioneer of neurology

was a German neurologist, psychiatrist and physician

was a German neurologist and psychiatrist born in Stuttgart

was a German physician and neurologist

was a German psychiatrist of Jewish origin

Assistent an der oberbayer. Landesirrenanstalt

ein deutscher Neurologe und Psychiater

was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist

was a German psychiatrist who was a student and collaborator of Karl Kleist

first German professor of neurology

became professor of psychiatry there

Hitzig is remembered for his work concerning the interaction between electric current and the brain

In 1941, he succeeded Otfrid Foerster as professor of neurology in Breslau

was a neurologist, psychologist, sexologist, and ethicist

was a German neurologist and psychiatrist born in Berlin

one of the chief proponents of phrenology

was a German neurologist and psychiatrist born in Frankfurt am Main

Sudeten German neurologist and psychiatrist

was a Baltic German neurologist

was a German psychiatrist

was a German neurologist born into a Jewish family

was a clinical neurologist and professor

was a German neurologist and psychiatrist

was a German psychiatrist and neurologist

He described the clinical manifestations (1895) and the autopsy findings (1901) in occlusions of the arteria cerebelli posterior inferior (Wallenberg's syndrome).

Sigbert Ganser is remembered for a hysterical disorder that he first described in 1898.

became a private lecturer in psychiatry and neurology

is a German psychiatrist and professor of psychiatry, psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy

appointed to the first chair of psychiatry at the Imperial University of Dorpat

was a German neurologist, professor of neurology and psychiatry at the University of Cologne.

was a German-Jewish psychiatrist and neurologist

He was part of the somatic school who held that insanity is a symptom of biological diseases

Horn believed that mental illness was largely due to physical suffering, and used an assortment of mechanical devices for therapeutic purposes.

In 1885 he provided the first description of a dysmyelinating central nervous system disorder

Leuret was an important figure in the early days of French psychiatry.

He is credited with identifying the first published case of "presenile dementia", which Kraepelin later identified as Alzheimer's disease.

He is best known as the inventor of electroencephalography (EEG) in 1924, which is a method used for recording the electrical activity of the brain, commonly described in terms of brainwaves, and as the discoverer of the alpha wave rhythm which is a type of brainwave.

Jean-Martin Charcot (French: [ʒɑ̃ maʁtɛ̃ ʃaʁko]; 29 November 1825-16 August 1893) was a French neurologist and professor of anatomical pathology.

Together with Ugo Cerletti, a neurophysiologist and a psychiatrist, he researched and discovered the method of electroconvulsive therapy, a type of shock therapy for mental diseases.

Manfred Joshua Sakel (June 6, 1900, December 2, 1957) was an Austrian-American neurophysiologist and psychiatrist, credited with developing insulin shock therapy in 1927.

Stanley Ben Prusiner (born May 28, 1942) is an American neurologist and biochemist.

Ugo Cerletti (26 September 1877-25 July 1963) was an Italian neurologist who discovered the method of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) used in psychiatry.

was a Russian neurologist, acupuncturist, and apitherapist