Marcus Raichle

Marcus Raichle
Raichle in 2014
Born	(1937-03-15) March 15, 1937 (age 87) Hoquiam, Washington, US
Known for	default mode, functional neuroimaging
Awards	Karl Spencer Lashley Award (1998) Grawemeyer Award in Psychology (2001) Kavli Prize in Neuroscience (2014)
Scientific career
Fields	Neuroimaging
Institutions	Washington University in St. Louis

Marcus E. Raichle (born March 15, 1937) is an American neurologist at the Washington University School of Medicine in Saint Louis, Missouri. He is a professor in the Department of Radiology with joint appointments in Neurology, Neurobiology and Biomedical Engineering. His research over the past 40 years has focused on the nature of functional brain imaging signals arising from PET and fMRI and the application of these techniques to the study of the human brain in health and disease.^[1] He received the Kavli Prize in Neuroscience “for the discovery of specialized brain networks for memory and cognition", together with Brenda Milner and John O’Keefe in 2014.