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  • 2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
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  • 2022 - Research.com Neuroscience in United States Leader Award
  • 2013 - William James Fellow Award, Association for Psychological Science (APA)
  • 2005 - Karl Spencer Lashley Award, The American Philosophical Society In recognition of his extensive demonstrations of the role of circulating steroid hormones as regulators of neuroplasticity and behavioral adaption
  • 2005 - Robert J. and Claire Pasarow Foundation Medical Research Award
  • 2003 - APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology, American Psychological Association
  • 2002 - Joseph Zubin Award, American Psychopathological Association
  • 1998 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
  • 1997 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1986 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Bruce S. McEwen was affiliated with Rockefeller University in the United States. Their academic career encompassed significant contributions to neuroscience and psychology, with a particular focus on the mechanisms through which steroid hormones regulate neuroplasticity and behavioral adaptation.

Although no individual research papers are listed, Bruce S. McEwen received multiple recognitions that reflect the impact of their work. These included the William James Fellow Award from the Association for Psychological Science in 2013, the Karl Spencer Lashley Award from The American Philosophical Society in 2005, which noted the extensive demonstrations of steroid hormone roles in neuroplasticity, and the Robert J. and Claire Pasarow Foundation Medical Research Award also in 2005. Earlier honors included the APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology in 2003 and the Joseph Zubin Award from the American Psychopathological Association in 2002.

Bruce S. McEwen was a member of prominent scientific organizations. They were inducted into the National Academy of Sciences in 1997 and the National Academy of Medicine in 1998. In 1986, they became a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Their research domain primarily revolved around the interplay between circulating steroid hormones and the brain's ability to modify its structure and function in response to environmental and internal factors. This included behavioral adaptation processes mediated by neuroplastic mechanisms. Though no specific publication venues or co-authors are listed, their presence at Rockefeller University suggests active involvement in neuroscience and psychological research communities.

Best Publications

  • Protective and Damaging Effects of Stress Mediators

    Bruce S. McEwen

  • Effects of stress throughout the lifespan on the brain, behaviour and cognition

    Sonia J. Lupien;Bruce S. McEwen;Megan R. Gunnar;Christine Heim

  • Physiology and Neurobiology of Stress and Adaptation: Central Role of the Brain

    Bruce S. McEwen

  • Stress, adaptation, and disease. Allostasis and allostatic load.

    Bruce S. McEWEN

  • Stress and the Individual: Mechanisms Leading to Disease

    Bruce S. McEwen;Eliot Stellar

  • The concept of allostasis in biology and biomedicine.

    Bruce S McEwen;John C Wingfield

  • The Neuroendocrinology of Stress and Aging: The Glucocorticoid Cascade Hypothesis

    Robert M. Sapolsky;Lewis C. Krey;Bruce S. McEwen

  • Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, and the Childhood Roots of Health Disparities: Building a New Framework for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

    Jack P. Shonkoff;W. Thomas Boyce;Bruce S. McEwen

  • Stress and hippocampal plasticity.

    Bruce S. McEwen

  • Allostatic load biomarkers of chronic stress and impact on health and cognition.

    Robert-Paul Juster;Bruce S. McEwen;Sonia J. Lupien

  • The neurobiology of stress : from serendipity to clinical relevance

    Bruce S. McEwen

  • Stress and cognitive function

    Bruce S McEwen;Robert M Sapolsky

  • Central effects of stress hormones in health and disease: understanding the protective and damaging effects of stress and stress mediators

    Bruce S. McEwen

  • Protective and damaging effects of mediators of stress. Elaborating and testing the concepts of allostasis and allostatic load.

    Bruce S. McEWEN;Teresa Seeman

  • Course of illness, hippocampal function, and hippocampal volume in major depression

    Glenda M. MacQueen;Stephanie Campbell;Bruce S. McEwen;Kathryn Macdonald

  • Allostasis and Allostatic Load: Implications for Neuropsychopharmacology

    Bruce S McEwen

  • Adverse childhood experiences, allostasis, allostatic load, and age-related disease

    Andrea Danese;Bruce S. McEwen

  • Stress, memory and the amygdala

    Benno Roozendaal;Bruce S. McEwen;Sumantra Chattarji

  • Estrogen actions in the central nervous system.

    Bruce S. McEwen;Stephen E. Alves

  • Central role of the brain in stress and adaptation: links to socioeconomic status, health, and disease.

    Bruce S. McEwen;Peter J. Gianaros

  • Protection and damage from acute and chronic stress: allostasis and allostatic overload and relevance to the pathophysiology of psychiatric disorders.

    Bruce S. Mcewen

Frequent Co-Authors

Teresa A. Milner
Teresa A. Milner Cornell University
Donald W. Pfaff
Donald W. Pfaff Rockefeller University
Victoria N. Luine
Victoria N. Luine Hunter College
Elizabeth Gould
Elizabeth Gould Princeton University
Robert L. Spencer
Robert L. Spencer University of Colorado Boulder
Randall R. Sakai
Randall R. Sakai University of Cincinnati
John H. Morrison
John H. Morrison University of California, Davis
Elizabeth M. Waters
Elizabeth M. Waters Rockefeller University
Thomas C. Rainbow
Thomas C. Rainbow University of Pennsylvania
Lawrence P. Reagan
Lawrence P. Reagan University of South Carolina

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