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Sonia J. Lupien

Sonia J. Lupien

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Psychology

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82
Citations
41265
World Ranking
1300
National Ranking
70

Overview

Sonia J. Lupien is affiliated with the University of Montreal in Canada. Their research spans fields such as psychology and medicine, with a focus on subfields including clinical psychology, behavioral neuroscience, social psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, and education. The primary research themes cover stress responses and cortisol, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, early childhood education and development, child abuse and trauma, COVID-19 and mental health, maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum, and neuroendocrine regulation and behavior.

The scientist has published frequently in a range of academic venues. The most notable publication venues include:

  • Psychoneuroendocrinology
  • Comprehensive Psychoneuroendocrinology
  • Anxiety Stress & Coping
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry

Among recent papers authored or coauthored by Sonia J. Lupien are:

  • Evaluation and update of the expert consensus guidelines for the assessment of the cortisol awakening response (CAR), 2022, Psychoneuroendocrinology
  • Gender roles in relation to symptoms of anxiety and depression among students and workers, 2020, Anxiety Stress & Coping
  • Human nail cortisol as a retrospective biomarker of chronic stress: A systematic review, 2020, Psychoneuroendocrinology
  • Mental Health and Social Support of Sexual and Gender Diverse People from Québec, Canada During the COVID-19 Crisis, 2022, LGBT Health
  • Associations between developmental trajectories of peer victimization, hair cortisol, and depressive symptoms: a longitudinal study, 2020, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Sonia J. Lupien include:

  • Charles-Édouard Giguère
  • Robert-Paul Juster
  • Isabelle Ouellet-Morin
  • Audrey-Ann Journault
  • Michel Boivin

The research work notably addresses the biological and psychosocial aspects of stress, its measurement, and its role in mental health and development across different populations and age groups. Topics such as cortisol measurement, anxiety, depression, trauma, and the effects of social support are recurrent themes.

Best Publications

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

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

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

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

  • Cortisol levels during human aging predict hippocampal atrophy and memory deficits.

    Sonia J. Lupien;Mony de Leon;Susan de Santi;Antonio Convit

  • The effects of stress and stress hormones on human cognition: Implications for the field of brain and cognition.

    S.J. Lupien;F. Maheu;M. Tu;A. Fiocco

  • The acute effects of corticosteroids on cognition: integration of animal and human model studies

    Sonia J. Lupien;Bruce S. McEwen

  • Assessment of the cortisol awakening response: Expert consensus guidelines.

    Tobias Stalder;Clemens Kirschbaum;Brigitte M. Kudielka;Emma K. Adam

  • Can poverty get under your skin? basal cortisol levels and cognitive function in children from low and high socioeconomic status.

    Sonia J. Lupien;S. King;M. J. Meaney;B. S. McEwen

  • Volumetry of Hippocampus and Amygdala with High-resolution MRI and Three-dimensional Analysis Software: Minimizing the Discrepancies between Laboratories

    J.C. Pruessner;L.M. Li;W. Serles;M. Pruessner

  • The Montreal Imaging Stress Task : using functional imaging to investigate the effects of perceiving and processing psychosocial stress in the human brain

    Katarina Dedovic;Robert Renwick;Najmeh Khalili Mahani;Veronika Engert

  • Chronic stress, cognitive functioning and mental health

    Marie-France Marin;Catherine Lord;Julie Andrews;Robert-Paul Juster

  • Basal cortisol levels and cognitive deficits in human aging

    S. Lupien;A. R. Lecours;I. Lussier;G. Schwartz

  • Stress hormones and human memory function across the lifespan

    Sonia J. Lupien;Alexandra Fiocco;Nathalie Wan;Francoise Maheu

  • Child's stress hormone levels correlate with mother's socioeconomic status and depressive state

    Sonia J Lupien;Suzanne King;Michael J Meaney;Bruce S McEwen

  • Working memory is more sensitive than declarative memory to the acute effects of corticosteroids: a dose-response study in humans.

    Sonia J. Lupien;Christian J. Gillin;Richard L. Hauger

  • Deactivation of the Limbic System During Acute Psychosocial Stress: Evidence from Positron Emission Tomography and Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Studies

    Jens C. Pruessner;Katarina Dedovic;Najmeh Khalili-Mahani;Veronika Engert

  • Stress, memory, and the hippocampus: can't live with it, can't live without it.

    Sonia J Lupien;Martin Lepage

  • Self-reported depressive symptoms and stress levels in healthy young men: associations with the cortisol response to awakening.

    Marita Pruessner;Dirk H. Hellhammer;Jens C. Pruessner;Sonia J. Lupien

  • Effects of relaxing music on salivary cortisol level after psychological stress.

    Stéphanie Khalfa;Simone Dalla Bella;Mathieu Roy;Isabelle Peretz

  • Stress-induced declarative memory impairment in healthy elderly subjects: relationship to cortisol reactivity.

    S. J. Lupien;S. J. Lupien;S. Gaudreau;B. M. Tchiteya;F. Maheu

  • Do corticosteroids damage the brain

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert-Paul Juster
Robert-Paul Juster University of Montreal
Jens C. Pruessner
Jens C. Pruessner University of Konstanz
Marie-France Marin
Marie-France Marin University of Quebec at Montreal
Michel Boivin
Michel Boivin Université Laval
Richard E. Tremblay
Richard E. Tremblay University of Montreal
William S. Kremen
William S. Kremen University of California, San Diego
Carol E. Franz
Carol E. Franz University of California, San Diego
Sally P. Mendoza
Sally P. Mendoza University of California, Davis
Claudia Buss
Claudia Buss University of California, Irvine
Michael J. Lyons
Michael J. Lyons Boston University

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