Talk to probe roots of stress

BY: LEIGH MACMILLAN

Robert Sapolsky, Ph.D., the author of “Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers,” will deliver the 2007 Brainstorm Keynote Address on Thursday, March 22, at 4:10 p.m. in 103 Wilson Hall. Sapolsky will address how prolonged stress can cause or contribute to disease, and how to cope.

Sapolsky is the John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Professor of Biological Sciences and professor of Neurology and Neurological Sciences at Stanford University. His research focuses on issues of stress and neuron degeneration, with a particular emphasis on gene transfer techniques to protect susceptible neurons from disease.

Sapolsky is the author of several books including “Monkeyluv: And Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals,” “A Primate's Memoir,” and “The Trouble with Testosterone: And Other Essays on the Biology of the Human Predicament.” He has received a MacArthur Fellowship, an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, and the Klingenstein Fellowship in Neuroscience.

The 2007 Brainstorm Keynote Address is free and open to the public, with a reception immediately following the presentation. For more information, contact the Vanderbilt Brain Institute, 936-2637, e-mail brain.institute@vanderbilt.edu or visit the Web site at http://braininstitute.vanderbilt.edu.

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