Bruce S. McEwen to receive Scolnick Prize for research on brain hormones
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 - 09:50
in Psychology & Sociology
Bruce S. McEwen, a pioneer in understanding how hormones affect the brain, will receive the 2011 Edward M. Scolnick Prize in Neuroscience from the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT. McEwen is being honored for research on how hormones affect the brain’s structure, how they shape responses to stress, how they contribute to sexual differences and how they affect our health and well-being.
