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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2002 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Jonathan R. Seckl is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom and has a research focus primarily in the field of Medicine, with particular contributions to Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Behavioral Neuroscience, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Oncology, and Physiology.

The scientist's main topics of investigation include Stress Responses and Cortisol, Hormonal Regulation and Hypertension, Infection Control and Ventilation, COVID-19 and healthcare impacts, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, Birth, Development, and Health, and Tryptophan and brain disorders.

Frequent research collaborators associated with Jonathan R. Seckl are:

  • Lucia Bandiera
  • Geethanjali Pavar
  • Gabriele Pisetta
  • Shūji Ōtomo
  • Enzo Mangano

Key publication venues for their work include:

  • University of Edinburgh
  • Royal Society Open Science
  • Psychoneuroendocrinology
  • Translational Psychiatry
  • Journal of Internal Medicine

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Jonathan R. Seckl include:

  • Face coverings and respiratory tract droplet dispersion, 2020, Royal Society Open Science
  • Hair glucocorticoids are associated with childhood adversity, depressive symptoms and reduced global and lobar grey matter in Generation Scotland, 2021, Translational Psychiatry
  • 11β-Hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase and the brain: Not (yet) lost in translation, 2023, Journal of Internal Medicine
  • Cohort profile for the STratifying Resilience and Depression Longitudinally (STRADL) study: A depression-focused investigation of Generation Scotland, using detailed clinical, cognitive, and neuroimaging assessments, 2021, Wellcome Open Research
  • Maternal Glucocorticoid Metabolism Across Pregnancy: A Potential Mechanism Underlying Fetal Glucocorticoid Exposure, 2020, The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism

Jonathan R. Seckl has been recognized with several honors including being named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2002, a Member of Academia Europaea in 2018, and a Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • Epigenetic programming by maternal behavior.

    Ian C G Weaver;Nadia Cervoni;Frances A Champagne;Ana C D'Alessio

  • A Transgenic Model of Visceral Obesity and the Metabolic Syndrome

    Hiroaki Masuzaki;Janice Paterson;Hiroshi Shinyama;Nicholas M. Morton

  • Early environmental regulation of forebrain glucocorticoid receptor gene expression: implications for adrenocortical responses to stress.

    Michael J. Meaney;Josie Diorio;Darlene Francis;Judith Widdowson

  • 11beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 knockout mice show attenuated glucocorticoid-inducible responses and resist hyperglycemia on obesity or stress.

    Yuri Kotelevtsev;Megan C. Holmes;Ann Burchell;Pamela M. Houston

  • Prenatal Stress, Glucocorticoids and the Programming of the Brain

    L. A. M. Welberg;J. R. Seckl

  • Glucocorticoid exposure in utero: new model for adult hypertension

    R. Benediktsson;R.S. Lindsay;J. Noble;J.R. Seckl

  • Glucocorticoids, prenatal stress and the programming of disease.

    Anjanette Harris;Jonathan Seckl

  • Minireview: 11β-Hydroxysteroid Dehydrogenase Type 1— A Tissue-Specific Amplifier of Glucocorticoid Action1

    Jonathan R. Seckl;Brian R. Walker

  • Transgenerational Effects of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Babies of Mothers Exposed to the World Trade Center Attacks during Pregnancy

    Rachel Yehuda;Stephanie Mulherin Engel;Sarah R. Brand;Jonathan Seckl

  • Mechanisms of disease: glucocorticoids, their placental metabolism and fetal 'programming' of adult pathophysiology.

    Jonathan R Seckl;Megan C Holmes

  • 11β-Hydroxysteroid Dehydrogenases: Intracellular Gate-Keepers of Tissue Glucocorticoid Action

    Karen Chapman;Megan C. Holmes;Jonathan R. Seckl

  • Glucocorticoid exposure in late gestation permanently programs rat hepatic phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase and glucocorticoid receptor expression and causes glucose intolerance in adult offspring.

    Moffat Nyirenda;R S Lindsay;Chris Kenyon;A Burchell

  • Epigenetic mechanisms of perinatal programming of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal function and health.

    Michael J. Meaney;Moshe Szyf;Jonathan R. Seckl

  • Elevated plasma cortisol concentrations: a link between low birth weight and the insulin resistance syndrome?

    D. I. W. Phillips;D. J. P. Barker;C. H. D. Fall;J. R. Seckl

  • Opposing effects of glucocorticoids on the rate of apoptosis in neutrophilic and eosinophilic granulocytes.

    L C Meagher;J M Cousin;Jonathan Seckl;Christopher Haslett

  • Prenatal stress, glucocorticoids and the programming of adult disease

    Elizabeth C. Cottrell;Jonathan R. Seckl

  • Adrenocortical, Autonomic, and Inflammatory Causes of the Metabolic Syndrome Nested Case-Control Study

    E.J. Brunner;H. Hemingway;B.R. Walker;M. Page

  • Dysfunction of placental glucocorticoid barrier: link between fetal environment and adult hypertension?

    C.R.W Edwards;R Benediktsson;R.S Lindsay;J.R Seckl

  • Dexamethasone in the last week of pregnancy attenuates hippocampal glucocorticoid receptor gene expression and elevates blood pressure in the adult offspring in the rat

    Naomi S. Levitt;Robert S. Lindsay;Megan C. Holmes;Jonathan R. Seckl

  • Placental 11 beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase: a key regulator of fetal glucocorticoid exposure.

    Rafn Benediktsson;Andrew A. Calder;Christopher R. W. Edwards;Jonathan R. Seckl

Frequent Co-Authors

Brian R. Walker
Brian R. Walker Newcastle University
Joyce L.W. Yau
Joyce L.W. Yau University of Edinburgh
John J. Mullins
John J. Mullins University of Edinburgh
Stafford L. Lightman
Stafford L. Lightman University of Bristol
Tommy Olsson
Tommy Olsson Umeå University
Ian J. Deary
Ian J. Deary University of Edinburgh
Michael J. Meaney
Michael J. Meaney McGill University
Katri Räikkönen
Katri Räikkönen University of Helsinki
Anu-Katriina Pesonen
Anu-Katriina Pesonen University of Helsinki
Joanna M. Wardlaw
Joanna M. Wardlaw University of Edinburgh

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