Barry John Everitt, FRS, FMedSci (born 19 February 1946) is a British neuroscientist and academic.
He undertook post-doctoral research at Birmingham and then at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, with the neuroanatomists Tomas Hökfelt and Kjell Fuxe.
Everitt's research has spanned many aspects of brain function, from neuroanatomy to neuroendocrinology and behavioural neuroscience.
[5][6][7] He is an acknowledged international authority on the neural systems underlying learning, memory and motivation especially in relation to drug addiction and in the top 1% most cited researchers in behavioural neuroscience.
[citation needed] He served as President of the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS) from 2016 to 2018.