Bruce S. McEwen

1.3k total papers · 210.3k total citations
1.0k papers, 158.1k citations indexed

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Bruce S. McEwen is a scholar working on Behavioral Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Bruce S. McEwen has authored 1.0k papers receiving a total of 158.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 568 papers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 301 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 278 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Bruce S. McEwen's work include Stress Responses and Cortisol (568 papers), Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (274 papers) and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (222 papers). Bruce S. McEwen is often cited by papers focused on Stress Responses and Cortisol (568 papers), Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (274 papers) and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (222 papers). Bruce S. McEwen collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Japan. Bruce S. McEwen's co-authors include Sonia Lupien, Elizabeth Gould, Firdaus S. Dhabhar, Catherine S. Woolley, John C. Wingfield, Teresa E. Seeman, Ana Marı́a Magariños, Robert M. Sapolsky, Megan R. Gunnar and Christine Heim and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and New England Journal of Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Bruce S. McEwen

1.0k papers receiving 153.1k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation benchmark for papers published in the same subfield and year, or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Protective and Damaging Effects of Stress Mediators
    1998 4.6k citations Bruce S. McEwen profile →
  2. Effects of stress throughout the lifespan on the brain, behaviour and cognition
    2009 4.3k citations Sonia Lupien, Bruce S. McEwen et al. Nature reviews. Neuroscience profile →
  3. Stress, Adaptation, and Disease: Allostasis and Allostatic Load
    1998 3.4k citations Bruce S. McEwen Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences profile →
  4. Physiology and Neurobiology of Stress and Adaptation: Central Role of the Brain
    2007 3.3k citations Bruce S. McEwen profile →
  5. The concept of allostasis in biology and biomedicine
    2003 2.3k citations Bruce S. McEwen, John C. Wingfield Hormones and Behavior profile →
  6. Allostatic load biomarkers of chronic stress and impact on health and cognition
    2009 1.8k citations Robert‐Paul Juster, Bruce S. McEwen et al. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews profile →
  7. Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, and the Childhood Roots of Health Disparities
    2009 1.7k citations Jack P. Shonkoff, W. Thomas Boyce et al. JAMA profile →
  8. STRESS AND HIPPOCAMPAL PLASTICITY
    1999 1.6k citations Bruce S. McEwen profile →
  9. The neurobiology of stress: from serendipity to clinical relevance11Published on the World Wide Web on 22 November 2000.
    2000 1.4k citations Bruce S. McEwen Brain Research profile →
  10. Adverse childhood experiences, allostasis, allostatic load, and age-related disease
    2011 1.4k citations Bruce S. McEwen et al. Physiology & Behavior profile →
  11. Stress and cognitive function
    1995 1.4k citations Bruce S. McEwen et al. profile →
  12. Central effects of stress hormones in health and disease: Understanding the protective and damaging effects of stress and stress mediators
    2008 1.4k citations Bruce S. McEwen European Journal of Pharmacology profile →
  13. Protective and Damaging Effects of Mediators of Stress: Elaborating and Testing the Concepts of Allostasis and Allostatic Load
    1999 1.3k citations Bruce S. McEwen, Teresa E. Seeman Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences profile →
  14. Stress, memory and the amygdala
    2009 1.3k citations Benno Roozendaal, Bruce S. McEwen et al. Nature reviews. Neuroscience profile →
  15. Cortisol levels during human aging predict hippocampal atrophy and memory deficits
    1998 1.3k citations Sonia Lupien, Mony J. de Leon et al. Nature Neuroscience profile →
  16. Central role of the brain in stress and adaptation: Links to socioeconomic status, health, and disease
    2010 1.2k citations Bruce S. McEwen, Peter J. Gianaros Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences profile →
  17. Astrocytes Give Rise to New Neurons in the Adult Mammalian Hippocampus
    2001 1.2k citations José Manuel García‐Verdugo, Bruce S. McEwen et al. Journal of Neuroscience profile →
  18. Estrogen Actions in the Central Nervous System1
    1999 1.2k citations Bruce S. McEwen, Stephen E. Alves Endocrine Reviews profile →
  19. Protection and Damage from Acute and Chronic Stress: Allostasis and Allostatic Overload and Relevance to the Pathophysiology of Psychiatric Disorders
    2004 1.2k citations Bruce S. McEwen Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences profile →
  20. Neurogenesis in the Dentate Gyrus of the Adult Tree Shrew Is Regulated by Psychosocial Stress and NMDA Receptor Activation
    1997 1.1k citations Elizabeth Gould, Bruce S. McEwen et al. Journal of Neuroscience profile →
  21. Genetic Variant BDNF (Val66Met) Polymorphism Alters Anxiety-Related Behavior
    2006 1.1k citations Kevin G. Bath, Bruce S. McEwen et al. profile →
  22. Proliferation of granule cell precursors in the dentate gyrus of adult monkeys is diminished by stress
    1998 1.1k citations Elizabeth Gould, Patima Tanapat et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  23. The stressed synapse: the impact of stress and glucocorticoids on glutamate transmission
    2011 1.0k citations Zhen Yan, Bruce S. McEwen et al. Nature reviews. Neuroscience profile →
  24. Estradiol mediates fluctuation in hippocampal synapse density during the estrous cycle in the adult rat.
    1992 1.0k citations Catherine S. Woolley, Bruce S. McEwen PubMed profile →
  25. Stress Effects on Neuronal Structure: Hippocampus, Amygdala, and Prefrontal Cortex
    2015 1.0k citations Bruce S. McEwen, Carla Nasca et al. Neuropsychopharmacology profile →
  26. Allostatic load as a marker of cumulative biological risk: MacArthur studies of successful aging
    2001 1.0k citations Teresa E. Seeman, Bruce S. McEwen et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  27. Stress induces atrophy of apical dendrites of hippocampal CA3 pyramidal neurons
    1992 1000 citations Yoshifumi Watanabe, Elizabeth Gould et al. Brain Research profile →
  28. Mechanisms of stress in the brain
    2015 963 citations Bruce S. McEwen, Jason D. Gray et al. Nature Neuroscience profile →
  29. Differentiation of newly born neurons and glia in the dentate gyrus of the adult rat
    1993 958 citations Heather A. Cameron, Catherine S. Woolley et al. Neuroscience profile →
  30. Mood disorders and allostatic load
    2003 849 citations Bruce S. McEwen Biological Psychiatry profile →
  31. The acute effects of corticosteroids on cognition: integration of animal and human model studies
    1997 828 citations Sonia Lupien, Bruce S. McEwen Brain Research Reviews profile →
  32. Brain on stress: How the social environment gets under the skin
    2012 826 citations Bruce S. McEwen Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  33. Acute Stress Enhances while Chronic Stress Suppresses Cell-Mediated Immunityin Vivo:A Potential Role for Leukocyte Trafficking
    1997 788 citations Firdaus S. Dhabhar, Bruce S. McEwen Brain Behavior and Immunity profile →
  34. Stress- and Allostasis-Induced Brain Plasticity
    2010 782 citations Bruce S. McEwen, Peter J. Gianaros profile →
  35. The Darwinian concept of stress: benefits of allostasis and costs of allostatic load and the trade-offs in health and disease
    2004 772 citations Jaap M. Koolhaas, John C. Wingfield et al. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews profile →
  36. Protective and damaging effects of stress mediators: central role of the brain
    2006 771 citations Bruce S. McEwen profile →
  37. Stress may add bite to appetite in women: a laboratory study of stress-induced cortisol and eating behavior
    2001 757 citations Elissa S. Epel, Bruce S. McEwen et al. Psychoneuroendocrinology profile →
  38. Stress-induced atrophy of apical dendrites of hippocampal CA3c neurons: Involvement of glucocorticoid secretion and excitatory amino acid receptors
    1995 736 citations Adrianov Os, Bruce S. McEwen Neuroscience profile →
  39. Course of illness, hippocampal function, and hippocampal volume in major depression
    2003 734 citations Glenda MacQueen, Bruce S. McEwen et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  40. Sexual differentiation of the brain
    1981 730 citations Bruce S. McEwen profile →
  41. Stress-Induced Alterations in Prefrontal Cortical Dendritic Morphology Predict Selective Impairments in Perceptual Attentional Set-Shifting
    2006 725 citations Conor Liston, Melinda M. Miller et al. Journal of Neuroscience profile →
  42. The Brain on Stress: Vulnerability and Plasticity of the Prefrontal Cortex over the Life Course
    2013 717 citations Bruce S. McEwen, John H. Morrison Neuron profile →
  43. Immunolocalization of Estrogen Receptor β in the Mouse Brain: Comparison with Estrogen Receptor α
    2003 714 citations Sudha W. Mitra, Elena Hoskin et al. Endocrinology profile →
  44. Plasticity of the Hippocampus: Adaptation to Chronic Stress and Allostatic Load
    2001 693 citations Bruce S. McEwen Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences profile →
  45. A mechanism converting psychosocial stress into mononuclear cell activation
    2003 693 citations Bruce S. McEwen, Clemens Kirschbaum et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  46. Chronic Psychosocial Stress Causes Apical Dendritic Atrophy of Hippocampal CA3 Pyramidal Neurons in Subordinate Tree Shrews
    1996 681 citations Ana Marı́a Magariños, Bruce S. McEwen et al. Journal of Neuroscience profile →
  47. The role of adrenocorticoids as modulators of immune function in health and disease: neural, endocrine and immune interactions
    1997 652 citations Bruce S. McEwen, Christine A. Biron et al. Brain Research Reviews profile →
  48. Repeated Stress Induces Dendritic Spine Loss in the Rat Medial Prefrontal Cortex
    2005 647 citations Jason J. Radley, Anne B. Rocher et al. Cerebral Cortex profile →
  49. Chronic stress impairs rat spatial memory on the Y maze, and this effect is blocked by tianeptine pretreatment.
    1996 641 citations Cheryl D. Conrad, Liisa A.M. Galea et al. Behavioral Neuroscience profile →
  50. Repeated stress causes reversible impairments of spatial memory performance
    1994 626 citations Victoria N. Luine, Miriam Villegas et al. Brain Research profile →
  51. Non-genomic and genomic effects of steroids on neural activity
    1991 622 citations Bruce S. McEwen Trends in Pharmacological Sciences profile →
  52. Chronic behavioral stress induces apical dendritic reorganization in pyramidal neurons of the medial prefrontal cortex
    2004 617 citations Jason J. Radley, Helene M. Sisti et al. Neuroscience profile →
  53. Estradiol Increases the Sensitivity of Hippocampal CA1 Pyramidal Cells to NMDA Receptor-Mediated Synaptic Input: Correlation with Dendritic Spine Density
    1997 591 citations Catherine S. Woolley, Nancy G. Weiland et al. Journal of Neuroscience profile →
  54. Neurobiological and Systemic Effects of Chronic Stress
    2017 590 citations Bruce S. McEwen SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología profile →
  55. Effects of stress on immune cell distribution. Dynamics and hormonal mechanisms.
    1995 589 citations Firdaus S. Dhabhar, Andrew H. Miller et al. profile →
  56. Psychosocial stress reversibly disrupts prefrontal processing and attentional control
    2009 584 citations Conor Liston, Bruce S. McEwen et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  57. Social influences on neuroplasticity: stress and interventions to promote well-being
    2012 559 citations Richard J. Davidson, Bruce S. McEwen Nature Neuroscience profile →
  58. Repeated restraint stress suppresses neurogenesis and induces biphasic PSA‐NCAM expression in the adult rat dentate gyrus
    2003 545 citations Juan Nácher, Patrick R. Hof et al. European Journal of Neuroscience profile →
  59. Estrogen Actions in the Central Nervous System
    1999 544 citations Bruce S. McEwen Endocrine Reviews profile →
  60. Selective Retention of Corticosterone by Limbic Structures in Rat Brain
    1968 544 citations Bruce S. McEwen et al. profile →
  61. Sex, stress and the hippocampus: allostasis, allostatic load and the aging process
    2002 541 citations Bruce S. McEwen Neurobiology of Aging profile →
  62. Glucocorticoids, depression, and mood disorders: structural remodeling in the brain
    2005 540 citations Bruce S. McEwen Metabolism profile →
  63. Invited Review: Estrogens effects on the brain: multiple sites and molecular mechanisms
    2001 523 citations Bruce S. McEwen profile →
  64. Microglia derived from aging mice exhibit an altered inflammatory profile
    2007 519 citations Amanda Sierra, Andres Gottfried‐Blackmore et al. Glia profile →
  65. Stress duration modulates the spatiotemporal patterns of spine formation in the basolateral amygdala
    2005 501 citations Bruce S. McEwen, Sumantra Chattarji et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  66. Cell types, lineage, and architecture of the germinal zone in the adult dentate gyrus
    2004 500 citations José Manuel García‐Verdugo, Bruce S. McEwen et al. The Journal of Comparative Neurology profile →
  67. Stress Down-Regulates Corticosterone Receptors in a Site-Specific Manner in the Brain*
    1984 481 citations L.C. Krey, Bruce S. McEwen et al. Endocrinology profile →
  68. Uncertainty and stress: Why it causes diseases and how it is mastered by the brain
    2017 415 citations Achim Peters, Bruce S. McEwen et al. Progress in Neurobiology profile →
  69. Understanding the broad influence of sex hormones and sex differences in the brain
    2016 396 citations Bruce S. McEwen, Teresa A. Milner profile →
  70. An energetic view of stress: Focus on mitochondria
    2018 348 citations Martin Picard, Bruce S. McEwen et al. Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology profile →
  71. Revisiting the Stress Concept: Implications for Affective Disorders
    2020 331 citations Bruce S. McEwen, Huda Akil Journal of Neuroscience profile →
  72. Social Structure, Adversity, Toxic Stress, and Intergenerational Poverty: An Early Childhood Model
    2017 242 citations Bruce S. McEwen et al. profile →
  73. Genes, Environments, and Time: The Biology of Adversity and Resilience
    2021 114 citations W. Thomas Boyce, Bruce S. McEwen et al. profile →

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Bruce S. McEwen 63.0k 34.0k 31.3k 19.1k 18.4k 1.0k 158.1k
Herta Flor 28.1k 0.4× 15.5k 0.5× 14.2k 0.5× 9.8k 0.5× 22.0k 1.2× 1.3k 93.7k
Charles B. Nemeroff 24.5k 0.4× 14.5k 0.4× 15.9k 0.5× 5.3k 0.3× 7.5k 0.4× 975 76.8k
E. R. de Kloet 32.4k 0.5× 18.1k 0.5× 9.1k 0.3× 14.4k 0.8× 4.6k 0.3× 637 54.3k
George P. Chrousos 25.4k 0.4× 9.4k 0.3× 4.2k 0.1× 24.1k 1.3× 5.3k 0.3× 1.4k 96.5k
George F. Koob 18.2k 0.3× 12.5k 0.4× 50.9k 1.6× 3.4k 0.2× 16.4k 0.9× 749 83.9k
Wylie Vale 33.2k 0.5× 16.8k 0.5× 18.0k 0.6× 24.3k 1.3× 2.3k 0.1× 758 85.7k
Eric J. Nestler 16.1k 0.3× 11.0k 0.3× 46.9k 1.5× 1.4k 0.1× 14.9k 0.8× 666 91.7k
Michael J. Meaney 24.8k 0.4× 23.4k 0.7× 4.9k 0.2× 3.1k 0.2× 5.8k 0.3× 559 61.9k
Dennis S. Charney 15.8k 0.2× 8.2k 0.2× 19.3k 0.6× 1.7k 0.1× 16.8k 0.9× 583 84.2k
Robert M. Sapolsky 17.5k 0.3× 12.0k 0.4× 7.0k 0.2× 4.7k 0.2× 4.3k 0.2× 359 48.0k

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