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Robert Maurice Sapolsky (b. 1957) is the John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Professor of Biological Sciences and Professor of Neurology and Neurological Sciences at Stanford University. “Stanford†redirects here. ...
Education
Robert Sapolsky received his AB in biological anthropology summa cum laude from Harvard University and subsequently attended Rockefeller University where he received his PhD in Neuroendocrinology, working in the lab of Bruce McEwen, a world-renowned endocrinologist. He is currently (2006) a professor at Stanford University, holding joint appointments in several departments, including: Biological Sciences, Neurology & Neurological Sciences, and Neurosurgery.[1] Latin honors are Latin phrases used to indicate the level of academic distinction with which an academic degree was earned. ...
Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and a member of the Ivy League. ...
Founders Hall Rockefeller University is a private university focusing primarily on graduate and postgraduate education research in the biomedical fields, located between 63rd and 68th Streets along York Avenue, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan island in New York City, New York. ...
Neuroendocrinology is the study of the interactions between the nervous system and the endocrine system. ...
Bruce McEwen is the Alfred E. Mirsky professor of neuroscience and runs the Harold and Margaret Milliken Hatch Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology at Rockefeller University. ...
Endocrinology is a branch of medicine dealing with disorders of the endocrine system and its specific secretions called hormones. ...
Career His current research focuses on issues of stress and neuron degeneration, as well as on the possibilities of gene therapy strategies and gene transfer techniques for help in protecting susceptible neurons from disease, identifying the role of glucocorticoids as important to such processes. He currently teaches a class called "Human Behavioral Biology" at Stanford University. The class is one of the most popular classes on campus. In medical terms, stress is the disruption of homeostasis through physical or psychological stimuli. ...
Drawing by Santiago Ramón y Cajal of neurons in the pigeon cerebellum. ...
Gene therapy is the insertion of genes into an individuals cells and tissues to treat a disease, and hereditary diseases in which a defective mutant allele is replaced with a functional one. ...
Transformation is the genetic alteration of a cell resulting from the introduction, uptake and expression of foreign genetic material (DNA or RNA). ...
Glucocorticoids are a class of steroid hormones characterised by an ability to bind with the cortisol receptor and trigger similar effects. ...
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He is the author of several books, including Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers and A Primate's Memoir. He is sometimes praised as one of the finest scientific writers of our time.[2] He also has written for magazines and is a popular speaker. Why Zebras Dont Get Ulcers written in 1994 by Robert M. Sapolsky, a highly acclaimed professor at Stanford University. ...
A Primates Memoir is a book by the American biologist Robert M. Sapolsky. ...
Also he travels to Kenya yearly to study baboons as they are primates that are closely related to humans in their stress inducing environment. They are further similar to humans in that they have almost no natural predators and hence the majority of the their stress derives from their social functioning. More specifically, Sapolsky studies the cortisol levels between the Alpha male and female and the subordinates to determine stress level.
Honors He is a MacArthur Fellow and has won Stanford's Bing Award for Teaching Excellence. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is a private, independent grantmaking institution. ...
Trivia Johnny Truant, the Metalcore band, used his name in a song title. He grew up in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, and was a childhood friend of journalist Ray Suarez. Johnny Truant are a British, Brighton based Noisecore band, formed in 2000 under the name Severance. ...
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Quotations "Finish this lecture, go outside, and unexpectedly get gored by an elephant, and you are going to secrete glucocorticoids. There's no way out of it. You cannot psychologically reframe your experience and decide you did not like the shirt, here's an excuse to throw it out—that sort of thing."[3]
"If a rat is a good model for your emotional life, you're in big trouble."[3]
"What's the punch line here? Physiologically, it doesn't come cheap being a bastard 24 hours a day."[3]
See also Hans Hugo Bruno Selye, CC (Selye János, 1907 - 1982), was a Canadian endocrinologist of Austrian-Hungarian origin. ...
Walter Bradford Cannon (Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, October 19, 1871 – Lincoln, Massachusetts, October 19, 1945) was an American physiologist. ...
Selected works
Books - Stress, the Aging Brain, and the Mechanisms of Neuron Death (MIT Press, 1992) ISBN 0-262-19320-5
- Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers (1994, Holt/Owl 3rd Rep. Ed. 2004) ISBN 0-8050-7369-8
- The Trouble with Testosterone: And Other Essays on the Biology of the Human Predicament (Scribner, 1997) ISBN 0-684-83891-5
- Junk Food Monkeys (Headline Book Publishing, 1997) ISBN 978-0747276760
- A Primate's Memoir (Touchstone Books, 2002) ISBN 0-7432-0247-3
- Monkeyluv : And Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals (Scribner, Fall 2005) ISBN 0-7432-6015-5
- "Are the Desert People Winning?" Discover magazine, August 2005, Vol.26, #8 , p. 38–41
Journal articles - Sapolsky, Robert; Lewis C. Krey, and Bruce S. McEwen (25 September 2000). "The Neuroendocrinology of Stress and Aging: The Glucocorticoid Cascade Hypothesis". Science of Aging Knowledge Environment 38: 21.
- Sapolsky, Robert; L. Michael Romero and Allan U. Munck (2000). "How Do Glucocorticoids Influence Stress Responses? Integrating Permissive, Suppressive, Stimulatory, and Preparative Actions". Endocrine Reviews 21: 55-89.
Notes Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ...
is the 208th day of the year (209th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ...
is the 208th day of the year (209th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ...
is the 208th day of the year (209th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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