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Overview

Peter Sterling is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States and primarily works in the field of neuroscience. Their research spans several subfields including cognitive neuroscience, cellular and molecular neuroscience, psychiatry and mental health, general health professions, and epidemiology.

Their recent publications cover a range of topics and are published in notable venues. Key papers include:

  • Why Deaths of Despair Are Increasing in the US and Not Other Industrial Nations-Insights From Neuroscience and Anthropology, 2022, JAMA Psychiatry
  • Why an animal needs a brain, 2023, Animal Cognition
  • What Can the Health Humanities Contribute to Our Societal Understanding of and Response to the Deaths of Despair Crisis?, 2023, Journal of Medical Humanities
  • Declining human fertility and the epidemic of despair, 2024, Nature Mental Health
  • Peter Sterling, 2021, Current Biology

Their frequent coauthors include Michael L. Platt, Simon B. Laughlin, Daniel R. George, Benjamin M. Studebaker, and Megan S. Wright.

Their work has appeared repeatedly in several key publication venues including:

  • Current Biology
  • Animal Cognition
  • JAMA Psychiatry
  • Journal of Medical Humanities
  • Nature Mental Health

Peter Sterling has contributed to the literature on various main topics within neuroscience, such as:

  • Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
  • Empathy and medical education
  • Traumatic brain injury research
  • Resilience and mental health
  • Functional brain connectivity studies
  • Genetics, aging, and longevity in model organisms
  • Neural dynamics and brain function

Among their scholarly output, Peter Sterling has published a book titled What Is Health? in 2020 through The MIT Press.

Best Publications

  • Allostasis : a new paradigm to explain arousal pathology

    P. Sterling

  • Allostasis: A model of predictive regulation

    Peter Sterling

  • Principles of Allostasis: Optimal Design, Predictive Regulation, Pathophysiology, and Rational Therapeutics.

    Peter Sterling

  • Why do axons differ in caliber

    János A. Perge;Jeremy E. Niven;Enrico Mugnaini;Vijay Balasubramanian

  • Structure and function of ribbon synapses.

    Peter Sterling;Gary Matthews

  • Principles of Neural Design

    Peter Sterling;Simon Laughlin

  • Microcircuits for night vision in mouse retina.

    Yoshihiko Tsukamoto;Katsuko Morigiwa;Mika Ueda;Peter Sterling

  • Visual receptive fields in the superior colliculus of the cat.

    P Sterling;B G Wickelgren

  • Evidence That Vesicles on the Synaptic Ribbon of Retinal Bipolar Neurons Can Be Rapidly Released

    Henrique von Gersdorff;Eilat Vardi;Gary Matthews;Peter Sterling

  • How Much the Eye Tells the Brain

    Kristin Koch;Judith McLean;Ronen Segev;Michael A. Freed

  • Influence of visual cortex on receptive fields in the superior colliculus of the cat.

    B G Wickelgren;P Sterling

  • Microcircuitry of the cat retina.

    P Sterling

  • Microcircuitry of bipolar cells in cat retina

    BA McGuire;JK Stevens;P Sterling

  • Microcircuitry of the dark-adapted cat retina: functional architecture of the rod-cone network

    RG Smith;MA Freed;P Sterling

  • Microcircuitry and Mosaic of a Blue–Yellow Ganglion Cell in the Primate Retina

    David J. Calkins;Yoshihiko Tsukamoto;Peter Sterling

  • Retina is structured to process an excess of darkness in natural scenes

    Charles P. Ratliff;Bart G. Borghuis;Yen-Hong Kao;Peter Sterling

  • The Light Response of ON Bipolar Neurons Requires Gαo

    Anuradha Dhingra;Arkady Lyubarsky;Meisheng Jiang;Edward N. Pugh

  • Architecture of rod and cone circuits to the on-beta ganglion cell

    P Sterling;MA Freed;RG Smith

  • Biological basis of stress-related mortality.

    Peter Sterling;Joe Eyer

  • Localization of mGluR6 to dendrites of ON bipolar cells in primate retina.

    Noga Vardi;Robert Duvoisin;George Wu;Peter Sterling

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert G. Smith
Robert G. Smith University of Pennsylvania
David J. Calkins
David J. Calkins Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Richard H. Kramer
Richard H. Kramer University of California, Berkeley
Jonathan B. Demb
Jonathan B. Demb Yale University
Henricus G.J.M. Kuypers
Henricus G.J.M. Kuypers Erasmus University Rotterdam
Kareem A. Zaghloul
Kareem A. Zaghloul National Institutes of Health
Peter L. Strick
Peter L. Strick University of Pittsburgh
Heinz Wässle
Heinz Wässle Max Planck Society
Robert H. Edwards
Robert H. Edwards University of California, San Francisco
Vikram G. Shakkottai
Vikram G. Shakkottai The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

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