Letter from the President

Carmine Pariante, Ph.D.

Dear friends and colleagues

We are approaching the end of 2020, and we are now almost four months into my ISPNE Presidency. I thought this was a good moment to look at the future and to share with you some of the plans that I, as President, and we all, as Executive Committee, have for the next few months, with a view to projecting the society into the future while also consolidating the enormous work that my predecessors have completed over the last few years. ... (Download the full letter below.)

Obituary - Bruce McEwen

On January 2, 2020 our colleague and dear friend, Dr. Bruce McEwen died after a brief illness.  I think that most of my colleagues would agree with me if I said that along with Hans Selye, Bruce was one of the greatest pioneer in stress research, both in animals and humans.  Bruce was also an amazing mentor who always wanted the best for young scientists.  We will miss him very much.  The field of psychoneuroendocrinology has lost a great scientist, and we all lost a very good friend.

(Download the full-text obtuary published in Psychoneuroendocrinology below.)