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Overview

Joe Herbert is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on medicine, psychology, and neuroscience. Within these fields, their work touches on subfields including social psychology, behavioral neuroscience, endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, reproductive medicine, and law.

The scientist's main topics of study cover a diverse range of themes, including:

  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
  • Reproductive Health and Technologies
  • Discrimination and Equality Law
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Neuroendocrine Regulation and Behavior
  • Adrenal Hormones and Disorders

Joe Herbert has published in several academic venues. These include:

  • The Lancet
  • Ecology and Evolution
  • JOURNAL OF CLINICAL AND DIAGNOSTIC RESEARCH

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Joe Herbert include:

  • "The UK Supreme Court's ruling and the rights of transgender people," 2025, The Lancet
  • "Fitness and Morphology Support Genetic Differentiation Across Different Geographic Scales in a Native Insect Utilising Native vs. Invasive Host Plants," 2025, Ecology and Evolution
  • "Histological and Histochemical Analysis of Foetal Suprarenal Gland Maturation from 13-40 Weeks of Gestation: An Observational Study," 2025, JOURNAL OF CLINICAL AND DIAGNOSTIC RESEARCH

Frequent collaborators of Joe Herbert include:

  • Ian Goodyer
  • Jeffrey W. Dalley
  • Johannes J. Le Roux
  • Liz Brown
  • Scott P. Carroll

Best Publications

  • Endogenous steroids and financial risk taking on a London trading floor.

    J. M. Coates;J. Herbert

  • Recent life events, cortisol, dehydroepiandrosterone and the onset of major depression in high-risk adolescents.

    Ian M. Goodyer;J. Herbert;A. Tamplin;P. M. E. Altham

  • Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) and DHEA-sulfate (DHEAS) protect hippocampal neurons against excitatory amino acid-induced neurotoxicity

    V. G. Kimonides;N. H. Khatibi;C. N. Svendsen;M. V. Sofroniew

  • Do corticosteroids damage the brain

    J. Herbert;I. M. Goodyer;A. B. Grossman;M. H. Hastings

  • Improvement in Mood and Fatigue after Dehydroepiandrosterone Replacement in Addison’s Disease in a Randomized, Double Blind Trial

    Penelope J. Hunt;Eleanor M. Gurnell;Felicia A. Huppert;Christine Richards

  • Regional changes in c-fos expression in the basal forebrain and brainstem during adaptation to repeated stress: correlations with cardiovascular, hypothermic and endocrine responses.

    X. Chen;J. Herbert

  • Exposure to postnatal depression predicts elevated cortisol in adolescent offspring

    Sarah L Halligan;Joe Herbert;Ian M Goodyer;Lynne Murray

  • Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) stimulates neurogenesis in the hippocampus of the rat, promotes survival of newly formed neurons and prevents corticosterone-induced suppression

    K. K. Karishma;J. Herbert

  • Adrenal secretion during major depression in 8- to 16-year-olds, I. Altered diurnal rhythms in salivary cortisol and dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) at presentation.

    I. M. Goodyer;J. Herbert;P. M. E. Altham;J. Pearson

  • Disrupted daily activity/rest cycles in relation to daily cortisol rhythms of home-dwelling patients with early Alzheimer's dementia.

    C. F. Hatfield;J. Herbert;E. J. W. van Someren;J. R. Hodges

  • Adaptation in patterns of c-fos expression in the brain associated with exposure to either single or repeated social stress in male rats

    Manuela Martinez;Peter J. Phillips;Joe Herbert

  • Cortisol and depression: three questions for psychiatry

    J. Herbert

  • Morning cortisol as a risk factor for subsequent major depressive disorder in adult women.

    T O Harris;S Borsanyi;S Messari;K Stanford

  • Salivary cortisol and dehydroepiandrosterone in relation to puberty and gender

    Clare Netherton;Ian Goodyer;Alison Tamplin;Joe Herbert

  • Cortisol, dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), and DHEA sulfate in the cerebrospinal fluid of man: relation to blood levels and the effects of age.

    E P Guazzo;P J Kirkpatrick;I M Goodyer;H M Shiers

  • Dehydroepiandrosterone antagonizes the neurotoxic effects of corticosterone and translocation of stress-activated protein kinase 3 in hippocampal primary cultures.

    V.G. Kimonides;M.G. Spillantini;M.V. Sofroniew;J.W. Fawcett

  • Disturbances in Morning Cortisol Secretion in Association with Maternal Postnatal Depression Predict Subsequent Depressive Symptomatology in Adolescents

    Sarah L. Halligan;Joe Herbert;Ian Goodyer;Lynne Murray

  • First-episode major depression in adolescents. Affective, cognitive and endocrine characteristics of risk status and predictors of onset.

    I. M. Goodyer;J. Herbert;A. Tamplin;P. M. E. Altham

  • Altered salivary dehydroepiandrosterone levels in major depression in adults.

    Albert Michael;Alison Jenaway;Eugene S Paykel;Joe Herbert

  • Raised circulating corticosterone inhibits neuronal differentiation of progenitor cells in the adult hippocampus

    E.Y.H. Wong;J. Herbert

Frequent Co-Authors

Ian M. Goodyer
Ian M. Goodyer University of Cambridge
Michael H. Hastings
Michael H. Hastings MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Barry J. Everitt
Barry J. Everitt University of Cambridge
Eric B. Keverne
Eric B. Keverne University of Cambridge
Lynne Murray
Lynne Murray University of Reading
Angela C. Roberts
Angela C. Roberts University of Cambridge
Francis J. P. Ebling
Francis J. P. Ebling University of Nottingham
Peter Jones
Peter Jones University of Cambridge
Sarah L. Halligan
Sarah L. Halligan University of Bath
Matilde Inglese
Matilde Inglese University of Genoa

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