Graeme Henderson (born 1949) is a British neuroscientist whose research focuses on opioid addiction.
[1] Graeme Henderson grew up in Glasgow, Scotland, and attended Shawlands Academy.
[2] Following the award of his PhD in 1974 he worked with Richard Alan North in Aberdeen and at Loyola University of Chicago studying opioid activation of potassium channels in brain neurons.
Along with Elizabeth Seward he demonstrated that opioid receptor activation inhibited the opening of voltage-gated calcium channels.
[1] Henderson's current research focuses on the mechanisms by which opioid drugs affect the central nervous system.