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Peter Sterling, Ph.D

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Professor of Neuroscience
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3f New York University School of Medicine, 1962.
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Description of Research Expertise

310 My broad goal has been to learn how the brain is designed – its functional architecture. My research spanned the full range of scales, from nanoscopic (synaptic vesicles), to microscopic (neural circuits), to macroscopic (regional neuroanatomy and behavior). My lab studies focused on retinal structure and function (Sterling, 2013), but my theoretical interests extended to basic issues of physiological regulation and behavior, leading to the concept of allostasis (Sterling, 2004, 2011). The two lines were integrated in a book written with Prof. Simon Laughlin, Principles of Neural Design (2015) and another, What is Health? Allostasis and the Evolution of Human Design (2020). Investigations continue in a Massachusetts garden and on a farm in western Panamá.
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Selected Publications

14a Daniel R. George, Benjamin Studebaker, Peter Sterling, Megan S. Wright, Cindy L. Cain : What Can the Health Humanities Contribute to Our Societal Understanding of and Response to the Deaths of Despair Crisis? Journal of Medical Humanities 44: 347-367, 2023.

 c2 Peter Sterling: Collected writings on the sociological and psychological bases for health and disease. ResearchGate 2023.

 105 Peter Sterling: A Neuroscientist Evaluates the Standard Biological Model of Depression. Mad in America 2023 Notes: https://www.madinamerica.com/2022/10/neuroscientist-evaluates-depression/

 103 Sterling P, Platt ML: Why Deaths of Despair Are Increasing in the US and Not Other Industrial Nations—Insights From Neuroscience and Anthropology. JAMA Psychiatry 79(4): 368-374, 2022.

 98 Sterling P.: Why I joined the Freedom Rides. Curr Biol 31: R766-R770, Jun 2021.

 d1 Sterling P: What is health? allostasis and the evolution of human design. MIT Press 2020 Notes: ¿Qué es la salud? Cecropia Press 2022.

 d1 Schulkin J, Sterling P.: Allostasis: a brain-centered, predictive mode of physiological regulation. Trends in Neuroscience October 2019.

 8f Sterling P: Predictive regulation and human design. eLife 7, Jun 2018.

 cd Sterling P: Why We Consume: Neural Design and Sustainability. Great Transition Initiative. Great Transition Initiative Website 2016.

 48 Sterling P, Laughlin, Simon. 54 : Principles of Neural Design. MIT Press. May 2015.

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