John Russell Reynolds

John Russell Reynolds ( * 1828, † 1896) was a British neurologist.

He was one of the first to extensively dealt with the behavior of epilepsy patients. He doubted the prevailing theory that serious mental disorders and epilepsy would almost always go hand in hand with. He studied the cognitive and affective functions in 62 patients with ( idiopathic ) epilepsy and found out that 39 % of patients were completely "normal", 32% mild impairment in short-term memory and 29 % severe psychopathological findings showed.

For his work he was awarded the title of Sir.