Bruce McEwen

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Bruce McEwen is the Alfred E. Mirsky professor of neuroscience and runs the Harold and Margaret Milliken Hatch Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology at Rockefeller University.

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His career has spanned many decades. His first paper was published in 1964, and between then and now, has published over 700 papers. The McEwen Lab 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. In addition to pioneering the role of both sex and adrenal steroid action in the brain, McEwen has mentored many successful PhD students. His current research focuses on glucocorticoids, stress and neuronal degeneration ^[1]. He is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

His most famous students include Robert Sapolsky, Elizabeth Gould and Catherine Woolley.

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