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Bruce McEwen | |
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 Bruce McEwen in an NCCIH interview entitled "Stress and Your Body" | |
| Born | Bruce Sherman McEwen January 17, 1938[1] |
| Died | January 2, 2020 (aged 81) |
| Education | Oberlin College (BS) Rockefeller University (PhD) |
| Known for | Allostatic load |
| Awards | Dale Medal of the Society for Endocrinology, Karl Spencer Lashley Award (2005), Pasarow Award in Neuropsychiatry (2005), Goldman-Rakic Prize for Cognitive Neuroscience (2005), Gold Medal Award from the Society for Biological Psychiatry (2009), IPSEN Foundations Prize in Neuroplasticity (2010), IPSEN Foundations Prize in Endocrine Regulations (2017) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | neuroscience, biological psychiatry, endocrinology |
| Institutions | Rockefeller University, University of Minnesota |
| Thesis | Energy Metabolism in Cell Nuclei (1964) |
| Doctoral advisor | Alfred Mirsky |
| Doctoral students | Heather Cameron Robert Sapolsky |
Bruce Sherman McEwen (January 17, 1938 – January 2, 2020) was an American neuroendocrinologist and head of the Harold and Margaret Milliken Hatch Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology at Rockefeller University. He was known for his work on the effects of environmental and psychological stress, having coined the term allostatic load.