Letter from the President - August, 2022
Carmine Pariante, Ph.D.
Dear friends and colleagues, dear members of the society,
This is my third letter that I write to you, and I am delighted that we will all soon meet at our face-to-face conference in Chicago in September.
When I wrote to you last Summer, while we were preparing #ISPNE2021 as a virtual conference, we did not know whether the next conference would have been face-to-face. Today, while we are enjoying the amazing success of the COVID vaccination programmes, we should not forget that the availability of vaccines in the developing world is still insufficient. As Society, we have...
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ISPNE 2022 Bruce McEwen Lifetime Achievement Award
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Robert Sapolsky, PhD
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Robert Sapolsky is the John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Professor of biology, neurology and neurosurgery at Stanford University, and a research associate at the Institute of Primate Research, National Museums of Kenya. Since the late 1970s, he has divided his time between lab work -- examining the mechanisms by which stress and glucocorticoids damage the nervous system, and the design of gene therapy strategies to protect neurons from stress -- and studies of wild baboons in the Serengeti in East Africa, examining the relationships among dominance rank, social affiliation, personality and stress-related disease. His books include Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers (1994/2004), Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (2017), and Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will (2023)
Dr. Daniel Quintana
University of Oslo
Dr. Daniel Quintana is a Senior Researcher at the University of Oslo and Oslo University Hospital investigating biological systems that link psychosocial factors to health, with a focus on neuroendocrine systems. His laboratory uses various research approaches, including randomised controlled trials, large-scale genetics studies, neuroimaging, and the collection of autonomic nervous system data. His other research interest is meta-science, which is the evaluation and improvement of research methods.
Dr. Quintana’s primary research focus is improving our understanding of the oxytocin signalling system and its role in health and wellbeing by investigating neurobiological mechanisms, improving methodology used in oxytocin research, and developing theory. He is the principal investigator for several oxytocin projects, which are funded by the Research Council of Norway, Kavli Trust, and the South-Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority. He has received several awards in recognition of his research, including the 2021 Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters Award for Young Researchers, the 2022 University of Oslo Prize for Young Researchers, and the Rafaelsen Young Investigator’s Award. He is also on the Editorial Board of Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science and BMC Psychology.
Dr. Quintana actively uses Twitter for research communication (@dsquintana) and is the producer and co-host of 'Everything Hertz', which is a podcast on research methodology and scientific life in the biobehavioral sciences. He is also a co-founder of the Norwegian Reproducibility Network, which promotes and enables transparent research practices in Norway.