Physiology and neurobiology of stress and adaption: How early life circumstances affect future health.
Part 1:  Introduction, Part 2: CNS functions, Part 3: Translations, Part 4: ACE health consequences

Professor Bruce S. McEwen is Head of the Harald and Margaret Milliken Hatch Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology at the Rockefeller University New York. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Institute of Medicine. In 1998, in The New England Journal of Medicine, Bruce S. McEwen proposed a radically new understanding of the impact of chronic stress linked to a concept termed Allostatic load. This modell caught immediately the interest of some Nordic General Practitioners. They saw depicted what they encountered every single day in their clinics: the ”wear and tear” of chronic lifetime adversity, conflicting relationships and unescapable burdens. This is why he is coming to Tromsø. (Besides: a post-doc fellowship years ago made him a true friend of Scandinavia)

From the rich website at The Rockefeller University New York:      

"Throughout life, hormones alter behavior and mood, regulate neuroendocrine activity, protect the brain from stress and regulate brain aging and certain disease processes. Dr. McEwen’s laboratory studies how stress and sex hormones act on the brain, taking an interdisciplinary approach that combines behavioral analysis and measurements of hormone levels with neurochemical, morphological, neuropharmacological, cellular and molecular methodologies and collaborative translational studies."