Robert W. McCarley, MD, (1937–2017)[1] was Chair and Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and the VA Boston Healthcare System.
He is also Director of the Laboratory of Neuroscience located at the Brockton VA Medical Center and the McLean Hospital.
During his residency at Massachusetts Mental Health Center, he studied with J. Allan Hobson.
McCarley and Martha Shenton published a classic paper in 1992 that described a relationship in a reduction in the volume of the left superior temporal gyrus and thought disorder in patients with schizophrenia.
In 2007, McCarley was ranked as the ninth most cited author in the field of schizophrenia research over the past decade.