Robert M. Sapolsky

Research.com Recognitions

• 2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in United States Leader Award
• 2025 - Research.com Neuroscience in United States Leader Award
• 2013 - APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology, American Psychological Association
• 1996 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
• 1987 - Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation
• 1987 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Best Publications

• How do glucocorticoids influence stress responses? Integrating permissive, suppressive, stimulatory, and preparative actions.

  Robert M. Sapolsky;L. Michael Romero;Allan U. Munck

  9009
  Citations

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

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

  3396
  Citations

• Glucocorticoids and hippocampal atrophy in neuropsychiatric disorders.

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  2851
  Citations

• The influence of social hierarchy on primate health

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  2739
  Citations

• Stress and cognitive function

  Bruce S McEwen;Robert M Sapolsky

  2671
  Citations

• The role of the hippocampus in feedback regulation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical axis.

  Lauren Jacobson;Robert Sapolsky

  2426
  Citations

• Why Stress Is Bad for Your Brain

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  2069
  Citations

• Interleukin-1 stimulates the secretion of hypothalamic corticotropin-releasing factor.

  Robert Sapolsky;Catherine Rivier;Gayle Yamamoto;Paul Plotsky

  1893
  Citations

• Prolonged glucocorticoid exposure reduces hippocampal neuron number: implications for aging

  RM Sapolsky;LC Krey;BS McEwen

  1648
  Citations

• Hippocampal damage associated with prolonged glucocorticoid exposure in primates

  RM Sapolsky;H Uno;CS Rebert;CE Finch

  1542
  Citations

• Diurnal Cortisol Rhythm as a Predictor of Breast Cancer Survival

  Sandra E. Sephton;Robert M. Sapolsky;Helena C. Kraemer;David Spiegel

  1337
  Citations

• Reproduction and resistance to stress: When and how

  J. C. Wingfield;R. M. Sapolsky

  1326
  Citations

• Effect of neonatal handling on age-related impairments associated with the hippocampus.

  M. J. Meaney;D. H. Aitken;C. Van Berkel;Seema Bhatnagar

  1314
  Citations

• Maturation of the adrenocortical stress response: Neuroendocrine control mechanisms and the stress hyporesponsive period

  Robert M. Sapolsky;Michael J. Meaney

  1252
  Citations

• Environmental Enrichment Reduces Aβ Levels and Amyloid Deposition in Transgenic Mice

  Orly Lazarov;John Robinson;Ya Ping Tang;Ilana S. Hairston

  1131
  Citations

• Glucocorticoid-sensitive hippocampal neurons are involved in terminating the adrenocortical stress response

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

  1084
  Citations

• Stress, Glucocorticoids, and Damage to the Nervous System: The Current State of Confusion

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  1022
  Citations

• Stress, the Aging Brain, and the Mechanisms of Neuron Death

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  1013
  Citations

• Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  1008
  Citations

• The possibility of neurotoxicity in the hippocampus in major depression: a primer on neuron death

  Robert M Sapolsky

  982
  Citations

• Glucocorticoids potentiate ischemic injury to neurons: therapeutic implications.

  Robert M. Sapolsky;William A. Pulsinelli

  967
  Citations