Peter Sterling (neuroscientist)

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Peter Sterling (born 1940 ) is an American psychologist and neurophysiologist. He is a professor of neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine .

youth

Peter Sterling was born in New York City in 1940 to Phillip and Dorothy Sterling. His parents were authors and politically active for a social renewal. At the age of 20 he was arrested as a student at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York while taking part in a Freedom Ride in Jackson, Mississippi . He was released after either paying a fine (depending on the source) or following the mediation of Howard A. Schneiderman , who recruited him into experimental biology.

Professional career

Peter Sterling attended New York University Medical School for two years but voluntarily dropped out to study neuroanatomy . He received his PhD from Western Reserve University , where he researched the anatomical structure of the spine .

Later he made decisive contributions to the three-dimensional microanatomy of the retina .

In 1980 he was appointed Professor of Neuroscience in the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia .

Together with Joseph Eyer, Peter Sterling coined the term allostasis as "stability through change", a concept that is becoming increasingly important in the context of the allostatic burden .

Works (selection)

  1. Stevens JK, Davis TL, Friedman N, Sterling P. A systematic approach to reconstructing microcircuitry by electron microscopy of serial sections. Brain Res. 1980 Dec; 2 (3): 265-93. PMID 6258704 .
  2. Sterling P, Eyer J. Biological basis of stress-related mortality. Soc Sci Med E. 1981 Feb; 15 (1): 3-42. PMID 7020084 .
  3. Sterling P. Deciphering the retina's wiring diagram. Nat Neurosci. 1999 Oct; 2 (10): 851-3. PMID 10491597 .
  4. Sterling P. Principles of Allostasis: Optimal Design, Predictive Regulation, Pathophysiology, and Rational Therapeutics. In: Schulkin J. Allostasis, Homeostasis, and the Costs of Physiological Adaptation. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, New York 2004. ISBN 0521811414
  5. Sterling P. Allostasis: a model of predictive regulation. Physiol Behav. 2012 Apr 12; 106 (1): 5-15. doi: 10.1016 / j.physbeh.2011.06.004. Epub 2011 Jun 12. PMID 21684297 .
  6. Sterling P, Laughlin S. Principles of Neural Design. MIT Press 2015. ISBN 9780262028707
  7. Sterling P. Predictive regulation and human design. Elife. 2018 Jun 29; 7. pii: e36133. doi: 10.7554 / eLife.36133. PMID 29957178
  8. Schulkin J, Sterling P. Allostasis: A Brain-Centered, Predictive Mode of Physiological Regulation. Trends Neurosci. 2019 Oct; 42 (10): 740-752. doi: 10.1016 / j.tins.2019.07.010. PMID 31488322 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Richard H. Masland: Introducing Peter Sterling, the 2012 Recipient of the Proctor Medal . In: Investigative Opthalmology & Visual Science . 54, No. 3, March 28, 2013, p. 2266. doi : 10.1167 / iovs.12-10693 .
  2. ^ The Civil Rights Digital Library: Sterling, Peter . Retrieved October 29, 2019.
  3. ↑ Alison Cupp Relyea: Peter Sterling Reflects on the 1960s and Rye ( en ) March 12, 2019. Retrieved October 29, 2019.
  4. ↑ Sterling P. Principles of Allostasis: Optimal Design, Predictive Regulation, Pathophysiology, and Rational Therapeutics. In: Schulkin J. Allostasis, Homeostasis, and the Costs of Physiological Adaptation. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, New York 2004. ISBN 0521811414
  5. ^ P. Sterling, HG Kuypers: Anatomical organization of the brachial spinal cord of the cat. I. The distribution of dorsal root fibers. . In: Brain research . 4, No. 1, February 1967, pp. 1-15. doi : 10.1016 / 0006-8993 (67) 90144-8 . PMID 4166091 .
  6. ↑ Sterling P; Eyer J (1988) Allostasis: a new paradigm to explain arousal pathology. In: Handbook of Life Stress, Cogintion and Health (Fisher S; Reason J, eds), pp 629-649. New York, NY: J. Wiley & Sons. ISBN 0471912697
personal data
SURNAME Sterling, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American psychologist and neurophysiologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1940