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Stanley J. Watson Jr. is a neuroscientist whose research focuses on regulation by the central nervous system of behavior in the brains of individuals with severe mental illness. He is the co-director of the Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute with Huda Akil and the Ralph Waldo Gerard Professor of Neuroscience and Psychiatry at the University of Michigan.^[1] He is also the co-director of the University of Michigan node of the Pritzker Neuropsychiatric Disorders Research Consortium.^[2]

He is an original member of the ISI Highly Cited Researchers database and ranks as one of the most highly cited neuroscientists in the world by the Science Citation Index. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) in 1994 and served as a principal investigator for the study on which a 1999 NAM report on medical marijuana was based.^[3]

• Stanley J. Watson at MBNI
• Pritzker Neuropsychiatric Disorders Research Consortium website
• Marijuana and Medicine: Assessing the Science Base on The National Academies Press website