Steven F. Maier

Research.com Recognitions

• 2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in United States Leader Award
• 2025 - Research.com Neuroscience in United States Leader Award
• 2016 - Grawemeyer Award in Psychology, University of Louisville
• 2009 - APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology, American Psychological Association
• 1982 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Best Publications

• Learned helplessness: Theory and evidence.

  Steven F. Maier;Martin E. P. Seligman

  3803
  Citations

• Failure to Escape Traumatic Shock

  Martin E. Seligman;Steven F. Maier

  3578
  Citations

• Learned Helplessness: A Theory for the Age of Personal Control

  Christopher Peterson;Steven F. Maier;Martin E. P. Seligman

  2381
  Citations

• Cytokines for psychologists: implications of bidirectional immune-to-brain communication for understanding behavior, mood, and cognition.

  Steven F. Maier;Linda R. Watkins

  1577
  Citations

• Glial activation: a driving force for pathological pain.

  Linda R. Watkins;Erin D. Milligan;Steven F. Maier

  1412
  Citations

• Medial prefrontal cortex determines how stressor controllability affects behavior and dorsal raphe nucleus.

  J Amat;M V Baratta;E Paul;S T Bland

  1158
  Citations

• Beyond Neurons: Evidence That Immune and Glial Cells Contribute to Pathological Pain States

  Linda R. Watkins;Steven F. Maier

  1015
  Citations

• Pathological pain and the neuroimmune interface

  Peter M. Grace;Mark R. Hutchinson;Steven F. Maier;Linda R. Watkins

  987
  Citations

• Immune activation: the role of pro-inflammatory cytokines in inflammation, illness responses and pathological pain states

  Linda R. Watkins;Steven F. Maier;Lisa E. Goehler

  935
  Citations

• Stressor controllability and learned helplessness: the roles of the dorsal raphe nucleus, serotonin, and corticotropin-releasing factor.

  Steven F. Maier;Linda R. Watkins

  905
  Citations

• Spinal Glia and Proinflammatory Cytokines Mediate Mirror-Image Neuropathic Pain in Rats

  Erin D. Milligan;Carin Twining;Marucia Chacur;Joseph Biedenkapp

  876
  Citations

• Learned helplessness at fifty: Insights from neuroscience.

  Steven F. Maier;Martin E. P. Seligman

  875
  Citations

• Minocycline attenuates mechanical allodynia and proinflammatory cytokine expression in rat models of pain facilitation.

  Annemarie Ledeboer;Evan M. Sloane;Erin D. Milligan;Matthew G. Frank

  838
  Citations

• GLIA: A novel drug discovery target for clinical pain

  Linda R. Watkins;Steven F. Maier

  828
  Citations

• Cytokine-to-brain communication: A review & analysis of alternative mechanisms

  Linda R. Watkins;Steven F. Maier;Lisa E. Goehler;Lisa E. Goehler

  790
  Citations

• Microglia serve as a neuroimmune substrate for stress-induced potentiation of CNS pro-inflammatory cytokine responses.

  Matthew G. Frank;Michael V. Baratta;David B. Sprunger;Linda R. Watkins

  762
  Citations

• Coping and immunosuppression: inescapable but not escapable shock suppresses lymphocyte proliferation.

  Mark L. Laudenslager;Susan M. Ryan;Robert C. Drugan;Richard L. Hyson

  737
  Citations

• Dynamic microglial alterations underlie stress-induced depressive-like behavior and suppressed neurogenesis

  T Kreisel;M G Frank;T Licht;R Reshef

  712
  Citations

• Unpredictable and Uncontrollable Aversive Events

  Martin E.P. Seligman;Steven F. Maier;Richard L. Solomon

  705
  Citations

• "Brain-specific" nutrients: a memory cure?

  Mark A. McDaniel;Steven F. Maier;Gilles O. Einstein

  692
  Citations

• Psychoneuroimmunology. The interface between behavior, brain, and immunity

  Steven F. Maier;Linda R. Watkins;Monika Fleshner

  691
  Citations