Robert M. Sapolsky

Stanford University — United States

Neuroscience · Life Sciences

117h-index63.8kcitations547works4.32yr avg
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Research Topics

Stress Responses and Cortisol(171), Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior(78), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research(60), Primate Behavior and Ecology(40), Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms(38)

Publications546 total

In defense of our lives as biological machines
Teorema·2025Open Access
Life without free will: Does it preclude possibilities?
Possibility Studies & Society·2024· 11 cited
Scars and PARs in a close relative
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2024· 3 citedOpen Access
Making sense of the costs of adversity throughout the lifespan on aging in humans and other animals
Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews·2024· 3 cited
2022 ISPNE Bruce McEwen Lifetime Achievement award: Stress, from molecules to societies
Psychoneuroendocrinology·2023
On free will or the lack thereof
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)·2022Open Access
Glucocorticoids, the evolution of the stress-response, and the primate predicament
Neurobiology of Stress·2021· 106 citedOpen Access
Foreword
Stanford University Press eBooks·2020Open Access
Psychosocial Risk Factors, Noncommunicable Diseases, and Animal Models for COVID-19
Biological Psychiatry·2020· 2 citedOpen Access
Five Scientists on the Heroes Who Changed Their Lives
2020
Jaw Epidemic: A Reply to Singh
BioScience·2020
Reflections on Bruce S. McEwen’s contributions to stress neurobiology and so much more
Stress·2020· 11 citedOpen Access
The Jaw Epidemic: Recognition, Origins, Cures, and Prevention
BioScience·2020· 36 citedOpen Access
In memoriam: Bruce S. McEwen
Hormones and Behavior·2020· 3 cited
This Is Your Brain on Nationalism
Foreign Affairs·2019· 50 cited
Doubled-Edged Swords in the Biology of Conflict
Frontiers in Psychology·2018· 23 citedOpen Access
Stress, Health and Social Behavior
Elsevier eBooks·2018· 12 cited
Speculations on the Evolutionary Origins of System Justification
Evolutionary Psychology·2018· 19 citedOpen Access
The mTOR cell signaling pathway is crucial to the long-term protective effects of ischemic postconditioning against stroke
Neuroscience Letters·2018· 12 cited
Adult-generated neurons born during chronic social stress are uniquely adapted to respond to subsequent chronic social stress
Molecular Psychiatry·2018· 29 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

Michael J. Meaney(4), Bruce S. McEwen(3), David H. Aitken(3), Heng Zhao(3), Gary K. Steinberg(3), L.C. Krey(2), Shawn F. Sorrells(2), Carolina Demarchi Munhoz(2), Charles E. Virgin(2), Desta R. Packan(2), Heidi C. Homer(2), Midori A. Yenari(2), Shari R. Bodnoff(2), Linda J. Iny(2), Joseph E. Tatarewicz(2), L. Michael Romero(1), Allan Munck(1), Lauren Jacobson(1), Catherine Rivier(1), Gayle Yamamoto(1)