Bruce McEwen

Education

In addition to pioneering the role of both sex and adrenal steroid action in the brain, McEwen has mentored many successful Doctor of Philosophy students.

Career

His career has spanned many decades. His first paper was published in 1959, and between then and now, he has published more than 700 papers. The McEwen Laboratory has been at the forefront of estrogen and glucocorticoid action in the brain.

McEwen"s group was the first to demonstrate that estrogen can increase dendritic spine density in the CA1 subfield of the hippocampus.

In addition, his lab also discovered stress-induced dendritic retraction in the CA3 hippocampal subfield. His current research focuses on glucocorticoids, stress and neuronal degeneration.

His most famous students include Robert Sapolsky, Elizabeth Gould, and Catherine Woolley. Doctor Bruce South. McEwen is Head of the Harold and Margaret Milliken Hatch Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology at Rockefeller University.

The McEwen lab has been at the forefront of research on the impact of stress hormones on the brain.

Doctor McEwen received his Doctor of Philosophy in 1964 and, since then, he has published more than 700 peer-reviewed articles in publications including Journal of the American Medical Association: The Journal of the American Medical Association, The New England Journal of Medicine, Neurobiology of Aging and The Journal of Neuroscience. His expertise and work have been featured on American Broadcasting Company, National Broadcasting Company, Cable News Network, Public Broadcasting Service, National Public Radio, British Broadcasting Corporation, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Science, Nature and many others He is co-author of the book The End of Stress As We Know lieutenant with science writer Elizabeth Norton Lasley and another book The Hostage Brain with science writer Harold M. Schmeck, Junior.

Doctor McEwen received his bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Oberlin College and his Doctor of Philosophy in cell biology from Rockefeller University.

Achievements

• He is a past president of the Society for Neuroscience and is currently a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Institute of Medicine. He has received numerous awards including a share of the IPSEN Foundation Prize in Neuroplasticity, the Gold Medal award from the Society for Biological Psychiatry, the Pasarow Award in Neuropsychiatry, the British Endocrine Society’s Dale Medal, the Goldman-Rakic Prize for Cognitive Neuroscience from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation and the Karl Spencer Lashley Award from the American Philosophical Society. Doctor McEwen is on the Scientific Advisory Board of Anti-AgingGames.com and works with Nolan Bushnell, the legendary Founder of Atari and founding father of modern video games as well as a team of world-class neurobehavioral scientists to create memory, focus, and relaxation games for healthy adults over the age of 35.

Membership

National Academy of Sciences]

He is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences.