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 .
39-847: (Redirected from Lashley Award ) The Karl Spencer Lashley Award is awarded by The American Philosophical Society as a recognition of research on the integrative neuroscience of behavior. The award was established in 1957 by a gift from Dr. Karl Spencer Lashley . Recipients [ edit ] 2024 Margaret Livingstone 2023 Silvia Arber 2022 Nicholas Spitzer 2021 Patricia K. Kuhl «in recognition of her fundamental discoveries concerning how human infants acquire language, and how brain structure and activity changes during language learning in both monolingual and bilingual children» 2020 Winrich Freiwald and Doris Tsao - "In recognition of their ground-breaking discoveries of primate cortical areas that selectively encode visual information about faces,
78-598: A library on the site in 1958 and recreated the façade of the old LCP building. APS restored the former Farmers' & Mechanics' Bank building at 425–29 Chestnut Street , which was built in 1854–55 to the design of John M. Gries in the Italianate style , to serve as a lecture hall. It is the site of meetings and most major events the society hosts. The Constance C. and Edgar P. Richardson Hall at 431 Chestnut Street, immediately west of Benjamin Franklin Hall,
117-782: Is a collection of indigenous language documents from around the United States including recordings of the Odawa language from northern Michigan. APS has created a guide to help provide broad coverage of the Native American and Indigenous archival collections at the Library & Museum of the American Philosophical Society. These materials date from 1553 to 2020 and include manuscript, audio, and visual materials relating to Indigenous peoples throughout
156-535: Is an American scholarly organization and learned society founded in 1743 in Philadelphia that promotes knowledge in the humanities and natural sciences through research, professional meetings, publications, library resources, and community outreach. It was founded by the polymath Benjamin Franklin and is considered the first learned society founded in what became the United States. Philosophical Hall ,
195-416: Is having profound consequences on every aspect of the field" 1987 Louis Sokoloff - "For his elucidation of the physiological and biochemical processes involved in the metabolism of the brain and the application of these discoveries to the measurement of functional activity within that organ" 1986 Pasko Rakic - "For his seminal contributions to the field of developmental neurobiology through research on
234-543: Is the former Pennsylvania Company for Insurances on Lives and Granting Annuities Building, which was built in 1871–1873 and designed by Addison Hutton . It contains offices and the Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine. Bruce McEwen McEwen received his bachelor's degree in chemistry from Oberlin College and his Ph.D. in cell biology from Rockefeller University in 1964. The McEwen laboratory
273-808: The American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine . McEwen published his first paper in 1959, and eventually published more than 700 peer-reviewed articles in journals including Nature , JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, The New England Journal of Medicine, Neurobiology of Aging and The Journal of Neuroscience . His expertise and work have been featured on ABC, NBC, CNN, PBS, NPR, BBC, and in The New York Times , The Wall Street Journal , and many others. He
312-593: The University of California, Berkeley . Ten academic institutions have each been affiliated with 50 or more members: In 1786, the society established the Magellanic Premium , a prize for achievement in "navigation, astronomy , or natural philosophy," the oldest scientific prize awarded by an American institution, which it still awards. Other awards include the Barzun Prize for cultural history ,
351-600: The APS's own collections, along with objects on loan from other institutions. In 1789–90, the Library Company of Philadelphia (LCP) built its headquarters directly across 5th Street from APS. In 1884 LCP sold its building, which was demolished for the expansion of the Drexel & Company Building in 1887. This building was demolished in the mid-1950s, during the creation of Independence National Historical Park. APS built
390-531: The Americas. The society also has a collection of manuscripts on the history of the British colonies, Revolutionary War, the history of American science, quantum physics, Charles Darwin and evolution, genetics and the history of technology. Philosophical Hall , at 104 South Fifth Street, Philadelphia, between Chestnut and Walnut Streets, immediately south of Old City Hall , was built in 1785–1789 to house
429-727: The Goldman-Rakic Prize for Cognitive Neuroscience from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation and the Karl Spencer Lashley Award from the American Philosophical Society. McEwen was on the Scientific Advisory Board of Anti-AgingGames.com where he collaborated with Nolan Bushnell , the founder of Atari, and with a team of world-renowned behavioral neuroscientists to create memory, focus and relaxation games for healthy adults over
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#1732776092882468-936: The Judson Daland Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Clinical Investigation, the Benjamin Franklin Medal , the Lashley Award for neurobiology , the Lewis Award, and the Thomas Jefferson Medal for distinguished achievement in the arts, humanities, or social sciences. The society has published the Transactions of the American Philosophical Society since 1771. Five issues appear each year. The Proceedings have appeared since 1838; they publish
507-515: The McEwen laboratory helped develop the modern concept of stress. His research has focused on glucocorticoids , stress and neuronal degeneration. McEwen's notable students include Robert Sapolsky , Elizabeth Gould , Catherine Woolley , Michael Meaney , and Heather Cameron. McEwen was a former president of the Society for Neuroscience and was a member of the National Academy of Sciences ,
546-508: The avian brain systems for learning and executing birdsong" 2003 Horace B. Barlow - "In recognition of his fundamental contributions to understanding how the eye and brain accomplish vision" 2002 Jean-Pierre Changeux - "In recognition of his pioneering, comprehensive studies into the fundamental molecular mechanisms underlying interneuronal communication and their role in network formation, learning, and reward" 2001 Edward G. Jones - "In recognition of his comprehensive determination of
585-515: The biological processes that modulate the formation and consolidation of memory" 2008 Eric Knudsen - "In recognition of his comprehensive study of visual and auditory perception in the owl and for his elucidation of how the auditory map is calibrated by the visual system during development" 2007 Richard F. Thompson - "In recognition of his distinguished contributions to understanding the brain substrates of learning and memory" 2006 Jon H. Kaas - "In recognition of his comprehensive analyses of
624-646: The computational principles underlying face encoding in these areas, and the implications of these discoveries for social cognition." 2019 Wolfram Schultz 2018 Catherine Dulac - "In recognition of her incisive studies of the molecular and circuit basis of instinctive behaviors mediated through olfactory systems in the mammalian brain" 2017 Michael Shadlen - "In recognition of his pioneering experimental and theoretical studies of decision-making, identifying neural mechanisms that accumulate and convert sensory information toward behavioral choices" 2016 Charles G. Gross - "In recognition of his pioneering studies of
663-428: The current understanding of prefrontal cortex and its role in working memory and for effectively applying insights from basic biological sciences to mental health" 1996 Mortimer Mishkin - "For his pioneering analysis of the memory and the perceptual systems of the brain, and his seminal contributions to the understanding of the higher nervous system function" 1995 Larry R. Squire - "For his seminal contribution to
702-421: The delineation of implicit and explicit memory systems in the brain" 1994 Robert H. Wurtz - "For brilliant technical innovations in recording the activity of single visual neurons of alert, behaviorally-trained monkeys that made possible salient scientific discoveries relating individual nerve cells to visual perception and to the generation of eye movement" 1993 Paul Greengard - "For his pioneering work on
741-427: The development of the central nervous system" 1985 David Bodian - "In recognition of his fundamental neurobiological studies studies that laid the foundation for the successful development of a vaccine against poliomyelitis. He has continued to make important discoveries in the development and structure of the nervous system" 1984 W. Maxwell Cowan - "For his long record of important contributions to understanding
780-1956: The embryological development of the brain" 1983 Edward V. Evarts 1982 Herbert H. Jasper 1981 Eric R. Kandel 1980 Curt P. Richter 1979 Brenda Milner 1978 Victor Percy Whittaker 1977 Torsten Nils Wiesel and David Hunter Hubel 1976 Roger Wolcott Sperry 1975 Paul Weiss 1974 Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle 1973 Janos Szentagothai 1972 Paul D. MacLean 1971 Sir Wilfrid Le Gros Clark 1970 Horace Winchell Magoun 1969 Elizabeth C. Crosby 1968 Theodore H. Bullock 1967 George H. Bishop 1966 Hans-Lukas Teuber 1965 Giuseppe Moruzzi 1964 Walle H . J. Nauta 1963 Alexander Forbes 1962 Philip Bard 1961 Edgar Douglas Adrian 1960 Heinrich Kluver 1959 Rafael Lorente de Nó See also [ edit ] List of neuroscience awards Kavli Prize Golden Brain Award Gruber Prize in Neuroscience W. Alden Spencer Award The Brain Prize Mind & Brain Prize Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience References [ edit ] ^ "2020 Karl Spencer Lashley Award" . American Philosophical Society . Retrieved 2021-03-01 . External links [ edit ] American Philosophical Society, Lashley Award Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Karl_Spencer_Lashley_Award&oldid=1250592364 " Categories : Awards established in 1957 Neuroscience awards The American Philosophical Society The American Philosophical Society ( APS )
819-402: The human visual capacity, particularly for stereoscopic vision, depth perception, and pattern recognition" 1989 Gian Franco Poggio - "For discoveries of visual cortical mechanisms in stereopsis and depth perception which have significantly influenced modern studies of the brain mechanisms in vision" 1988 Seymour Benzer - "A pioneer in using genetic techniques to study the genetic code and
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#1732776092882858-400: The molecular basis of signal transduction and vesicle mobilization in nerve cells" 1992 Seymour Kety - "For major contributions to understanding the genetics of schizophrenia and depression, and for developing reliable methods for studying cerebral blood flow which paved the way for PET imaging of brain activity" 1991 Sanford L. Palay - "For pioneering the study of the nervous system on
897-564: The name American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge . Franklin was elected the first president. During this time, the society maintained a standing Committee on American Improvements; one of its investigations was to study the prospects for a canal to connect the Chesapeake Bay and the Delaware River . The Chesapeake and Delaware Canal , which had been proposed by Thomas Gilpin, Sr.,
936-408: The neural computations underlying spatial memory" 2013 J. Anthony Movshon - "In recognition of his studies of how neurons in the cerebral cortex process visual information and how cortical information processing enables seeing" 2012 Eve Marder - "In recognition of her comprehensive work with a small nervous system, demonstrating general principles by which neuromodulatory substances reconfigure
975-543: The neurophysiology of higher visual functions and the neural basis of face recognition and object perception" 2015 David W. Tank - "In recognition of his pioneering application of intracellular recording and two-photon microscopy in awake animals, which has revealed new insights into the neural circuits underlying cognition" 2014 Edvard and May-Britt Moser - "In recognition of their discovery of grid cells in entorhinal cortex, and their pioneering physiological studies of hippocampus, which have transformed understanding of
1014-458: The operation of neuronal networks" 2011 Joseph E. LeDoux - "In recognition of his seminal studies of the neural mechanisms of emotional learning, particularly fear learning and fear memory" 2010 William T. Newsome - "In recognition of his pioneering studies of the primate visual system demonstrating the relation between perception and the activity of individual neurons" 2009 James L. McGaugh - "In recognition of his comprehensive study of
1053-511: The organization of the thalamus and the basis for the dynamic regulation of cortical excitability" 2000 Charles Stevens - "In recognition of his penetrating contributions to synaptic transmission and synaptic plasticity" 1999 Michael Merzenich - "In recognition of his original contributions to cortical plasticity" 1998 Michael I. Posner and Marcus E. Raichle - "Jointly, for their pioneering contributions to brain imaging" 1996 Patricia S. Goldman-Rakic - "For seminal contributions to
1092-562: The papers delivered at the society's biannual meetings. The society has also published The Papers of Benjamin Franklin , Joseph Henry , William Penn , and Meriwether Lewis and William Clark . Jane Aitken bound 400 volumes for the society. The society also has an expansive archive on framer of the U.S. constitution John Dickinson . APS holds the ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) which
1131-428: The primate cerebral cortex, its evolution, functional organization, and plastic response to injury" 2005 Bruce McEwen - "In recognition of his extensive demonstrations of the role of circulating steroid hormones as regulators of neuroplasticity and behavioral adaption" 2004 Masakazu Konishi and Fernando Nottebohm - "In recognition of their fundamental contributions in identifying the organization and function of
1170-676: The society and designed by Samuel Vaughan in the Federal style . A third floor was added in 1890 to accommodate the expanding library, but was removed in 1948–1950, when the building was restored to its original appearance for the creation of Independence National Historical Park . In 2001, it was opened to the public as The American Philosophical Society Museum, hosting revolving, thematic exhibitions that explore intersections of history, art, and science. The museum features works of art, scientific instruments, original manuscripts, rare books, natural history specimens, and curiosities of all kinds from
1209-876: The society supports a variety of disciplines in the humanities and the sciences. The American Philosophical Society was founded as the Philosophical Society in 1743 by Benjamin Franklin , James Alexander , Francis Hopkinson , John Bartram , Philip Syng Jr. , and others as an offshoot of an earlier club, the Junto . Early members included: Benjamin Franklin , John Dickinson , George Washington , John Adams , Thomas Jefferson , Alexander Hamilton , James McHenry , Thomas Paine , David Rittenhouse , Peter Stephen Du Ponceau , Nicholas Biddle , Owen Biddle , Benjamin Rush , James Madison , Michael Hillegas , John Marshall , Charles Pettit , and John Andrews . It
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1248-667: The society's headquarters and a museum, is located just east of Independence Hall in Independence National Historical Park . In 1965, in recognition of the building's history, it was designated a National Historic Landmark . The society has about 1,000 elected members. As of April 2020, 5,710 members had been inducted since its creation. Through research grants, published journals, the American Philosophical Society Museum, an extensive library, and regular meetings,
1287-793: The society. Many members of the Society of the Cincinnati were among the APS's first board members and contributors; the APS and SOC still maintain an informal, collegial relationship. Membership of the APS "honors extraordinary accomplishments in all fields." It has about 1,000 elected members, comprising about 840 "resident" members (United States citizens or those working or living in the United States) and about 160 "international" members. As of April 2020 it had elected 5,710 members since its foundation. Over that history, 208 members have been from Harvard University , 115 from Princeton University , 88 from Stanford University , and 84 from
1326-407: The transfer of information from DNA to proteins. By a brilliant selection of suitable experimental systems, he has succeeded over the last twenty years in advancing these techniques and applying them to the analysis of development and behavior. These contributions have greatly expanded the power of the genetic approach in neurobiology and fostered a merger between molecular biology and neurobiology that
1365-472: The ultrastructural level, for revolutionizing understanding, and especially for his seminal contribution - characterization of the chemical synapse in the central nervous system" 1990 Viktor Hamburger - "For pioneering the study of neuroembryology, and especially the landmark contributions to understanding neural cell death, nerve growth factor, and the developmental program for motor behavior" 1989 Bela Julesz - "For his illuminating discoveries concerning
1404-506: Was at the forefront of estrogen and glucocorticoid action in the brain for decades. McEwen's group demonstrated for the first time 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. By pioneering the role of both gonadal and adrenal steroid action in the brain,
1443-807: Was built in the 1820s. Following the American Revolutionary War , the society looked for leadership to Francis Hopkinson , one of the signatories of the United States Declaration of Independence . Under his influence, the society received land from the government of Pennsylvania, along with a plot of land in Philadelphia, where Philosophical Hall now stands. Charles Darwin , Robert Frost , Louis Pasteur , Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz , John James Audubon , Linus Pauling , Margaret Mead , Woodrow Wilson , Maria Mitchell , and Thomas Edison were all prominent members of
1482-841: Was co-author of the book The End of Stress As We Know It , with science writer Elizabeth Norton Lasley, and another book The Hostage Brain , with science writer Harold M. Schmeck Jr. He has received numerous awards including a share of the IPSEN Foundation Prize in Neuroplasticity, the Gold Medal award from the Society for Biological Psychiatry , the Pasarow Award in Neuropsychiatry, the British Endocrine Society 's Dale Medal,
1521-574: Was common at the time for intellectual societies to invite members from around the world, where the society recruited members from other countries, including Alexander von Humboldt , the Marquis de Lafayette , Baron von Steuben , Tadeusz Kościuszko , and Princess Dashkova . The society lapsed into inactivity by 1746, but was revived in 1767. On January 2, 1769, the society united with the American Society for Promoting Useful Knowledge under
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