About
Michael Meaney is a psychobiologist whose research interests lie in early environmental regulation of gene expression and brain development.
He seeks to understand how early experience exerts a sustained influence on neuronal function. Meaney is also interested in the development of individual differences in behavioural and endocrine responses to stress, and environmental and neuroendocrine mechanisms influencing maternal behaviour.
Awards
- Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize, 2014
Relevant Publications
Liu, D. et al. “Maternal care, hippocampal glucocorticoid receptors, and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal responses to stress.” Science 277, no. 5332 (September 1997): 1659–1662.