List of Muslim Scientists - Biologists, Neuroscientists, and Psychologists

Biologists, Neuroscientists, and Psychologists

Further information: Islamic psychological thought
  • Ibn Sirin (654–728), author of work on dreams and dream interpretation
  • Al-Kindi (Alkindus), pioneer of psychotherapy and music therapy
  • Ali ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabari, pioneer of psychiatry, clinical psychiatry and clinical psychology
  • Ahmed ibn Sahl al-Balkhi, pioneer of mental health, medical psychology, cognitive psychology, cognitive therapy, psychophysiology and psychosomatic medicine
  • Al-Farabi (Alpharabius), pioneer of social psychology and consciousness studies
  • Ali ibn Abbas al-Majusi (Haly Abbas), pioneer of neuroanatomy, neurobiology and neurophysiology
  • Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi (Abulcasis), pioneer of neurosurgery
  • Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen), founder of experimental psychology, psychophysics, phenomenology and visual perception
  • Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī, pioneer of reaction time
  • Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā), pioneer of neuropsychiatry, thought experiment, self-awareness and self-consciousness
  • Ibn Zuhr (Avenzoar), pioneer of neurology and neuropharmacology
  • Averroes, pioneer of Parkinson's disease
  • Ibn Tufail, pioneer of tabula rasa and nature versus nurture
  • Mir Sajad, Neuroscientist and pioneer in neuroinflammation and neurogenesis.

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