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Robert Sapolsky
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Robert Maurice Sapolsky

Robert Sapolsky in 2009.
Born    1957
Brooklyn, New York
Residence    United States
Nationality    American
Fields    Neurology, Neurobiology, Biological anthropology, Primatology
Institutions    Stanford University
Alma mater    Harvard University (B.A.)
Rockefeller University (Ph.D.)

Robert Maurice Sapolsky (born 1957) is an American neuroscientist and author. He is currently Professor of Biological Sciences, and Professor of Neurology and Neurological Sciences and, by courtesy, Neurosurgery, at Stanford University. In addition, he is a Research Associate at the National Museums of Kenya.[1]
Contents

    1 Early life and Education
    2 Career
    3 Honors
    4 See also
    5 Selected works
        5.1 Books
        5.2 Journal articles
        5.3 Courses
    6 References
    7 External links

Early life and Education

Sapolsky was born in Brooklyn, New York to immigrants from the Soviet Union. He was raised as an Orthodox Jew and spent his time reading about and imagining living with Silverback Gorillas. By age 12, he was writing fan letters to primatologists; he attended John Dewey High School and by that time, he was reading textbooks on the subject and teaching himself Swahili.[2]

In 1978, Sapolsky received his B.A. in biological anthropology summa cum laude from Harvard University.[3] He then went to Kenya to study the social behaviors of baboons in the wild; after which he returned to New York; studying at Rockefeller University, where he received his Ph.D. in Neuroendocrinology working in the lab of Bruce McEwen, a world-renowned endocrinologist.

Following Sapolsky's initial year-and-a-half field study in Africa he returned every summer for another twenty-five years to observe the same group of baboons, from the late 70s to the early 90s. He spent 8 to 10 hours a day for approximately four months each year recording the behaviors of these primates.[4]
Career

Sapolsky is currently the John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Professor at Stanford University, holding joint appointments in several departments, including Biological Sciences, Neurology & Neurological Sciences, and Neurosurgery.[5]

A neuroendocrinologist, he has focused his research on issues of stress and neuronal degeneration, as well as on the possibilities of gene therapy strategies for protecting susceptible neurons from disease. Currently, he is working on gene transfer techniques to strengthen neurons against the disabling effects of glucocorticoids. Sapolsky also spends time annually in Kenya studying a population of wild baboons in order to identify the sources of stress in their environment, and the relationship between personality and patterns of stress-related disease in these animals. More specifically, Sapolsky studies the cortisol levels between the alpha male and female and the subordinates to determine stress level. An early but still relevant example of his studies of olive baboons is to be found in his 1990 Scientific American article, "Stress in the Wild".[6]

Sapolsky has also written about neurological impairment and the insanity defense within the American legal system.[7][8]
Honors

Sapolsky has received numerous honors and awards for his work, including the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship genius grant in 1987,[9] an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, and the Klingenstein Fellowship in Neuroscience. He was also awarded the National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award and the Young Investigator of the Year Awards from the Society for Neuroscience, the International Society for Psychoneuro-Endocrinology, and the Biological Psychiatry Society.

In 2007 he received the John P. McGovern Award for Behavioral Science, awarded by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[10]

In 2008 he received Wonderfest's Carl Sagan Prize for Science Popularization.[11] In February 2010 Sapolsky was named to the Freedom From Religion Foundation's Honorary Board of distinguished achievers.[12]
See also

    Hans Selye
    Walter Bradford Cannon
    Paul Radin

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 Paperbacks/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 Publishing, 1997) ISBN 978-0-7472-7676-0
    A Primate's Memoir (Touchstone Books, 2002) ISBN 0-7432-0247-3
    Monkeyluv : And Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals (Scribner, 2005) ISBN 0-7432-6015-5

Journal articles

    Sapolsky, Robert (January 1990). "Stress in The Wild". Scientific American 262 (1): 106–113. PMID 2294581.
    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 (1): 55–89. doi:10.1210/er.21.1.55. PMID 10696570.
    Sapolsky, Robert; Rodrigues SM. (2009). "Disruption of Fear Memory through Dual-Hormone Gene Therapy". Biol Psychiatry 65 (5): 441–4. doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2008.09.003. PMC 2660393. PMID 18973875.
    Sapolsky, Robert; Mitra R. (2009). "Effects of enrichment predominate over those of chronic stress on fear-related behavior in male rats". Stress 12 (4): 305–12. doi:10.1080/10253890802379955. PMID 19051124.
    Sapolsky, Robert; Cheng MY., Sun G., Jin M., Zhao H. and Steinberg GK. (2009). "Blocking glucocorticoid and enhancing estrogenic genomic signaling protects against cerebral ischemia". J Cereb Blood Flow Metab 29 (1): 130–6. doi:10.1038/jcbfm.2008.105. PMID 18797472.

Courses

    Being Human: Life Lessons from the Frontiers of Science, a course by the Teaching Company in 2012. [13]
    Biology and Human Behavior: The Neurological Origins of Individuality, a course by the Teaching Company in 2005.[14]
    Stress and Your Body, a course by the Teaching Company in 2010.[15]
    Human Behavioral Biology, Stanford University undergraduate biology course. See iTunesU. 2009.

References

    ^ "Robert Sapolsky". Retrieved 22 FEB 2009.
    ^ Vaughan, Christopher. "Going Wild A biologist gets in touch with his inner primate.". Stanford Magazine. Retrieved 20 August 2011.
    ^ "About Robert Sapolsky: advancing our understanding of stress for decades". Stanford University. Retrieved 20 August 2011.
    ^ "Transcript of How I Write Conversation with Robert Sapolsky". Stanford University. Retrieved 20 August 2011.
    ^ "Stanford Univ. detail of Prof. Sapolsky". Retrieved 2007-07-27
    ^ Sapolsky, Robert M. (1990). "Stress in the Wild". Scientific American, 262. 106–113
    ^ "The Brain on the Stand," New York Times Magazine
    ^ The frontal cortex and the criminal justice system.
    ^ "MacArthur Fellows List - July 1987". Retrieved 2008-03-24.
    ^ "About AAAS: John McGovern Lecture". Retrieved 22 FEB 2009.
    ^ "Sagan Prize Recipients". wonderfest.org. 2011 [last update]. Retrieved September 10, 2011.
    ^ "Honorary FFRF Board Announced". ffrf.org. Retrieved February 15, 2010.
    ^ Robert Sapolsky (2012). "Being Human: Life Lessons from the Frontiers of Science". The Teaching Company. Retrieved 2012-04-20.
    ^ Robert Sapolsky (2005). "Biology and Human Behavior: The Neurological Origins of Individuality, 2nd edition". The Teaching Company. Retrieved 2010-11-10.
    ^ Robert Sapolsky (2010). "Stress and Your Body". The Teaching Company. Retrieved 2011-05-29.

External links
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    Robert Sapolsky profile at Stanford School of Medicine
    Robert Sapolsky biographical entry at the Barclay Agency
    Going Wild
    Robert Sapolsky at edge.org
    Robert Sapolsky at meta-library.net
    Robert Sapolsky at KurzweilAI.net
    Robert Sapolsky Lecture at Syracuse University
    excerpt of the "Emperor Has No Clothes Award" acceptance speech
    New York Times article "No Time for Bullies: Baboons Retool Their Culture," readable account of Sapolsky's research on baboon culture
    Stress: Portrait of a Killer, National Geographic special featuring Sapolsky's research
    Does Age Quash Our Spirit of Adventure? An NPR interview with Robert Sapolsky
    Robert Sapolsky: The uniqueness of humans via TED.com
    Robert Sapolsky New York Times essay "This Is Your Brain on Metaphors" in the "The Stone" blog