- Position : Assistant Professor
- Institution : McGill University
- Department : Departments of Psychiatry, Neurology and Neurosurgery
- Location : Verdun, Quebec, Canada
- Website : http://gratia-scientiae.mcgill.ca/
Dr. Jens C. Pruessner PhD
Main Research Focus
Psychoneuroendocrinology, structural and
functional Neuroimaging
Career
The core of my research efforts is to investigate the central nervous system (CNS) regulation of metabolic and endocrine systems. With recent advances in structural and functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, it is now possible to associate metabolic events in the periphery with activation changes in the CNS, and with structural abnormalities of specific subcomponents of the brain. This yields exciting possibilities, especially when investigating clinical populations, and opens a new chapter in PNE research.
Awards
2008 ISPNE Curt Richter Young Investigator Award
2005 CIHR New Investigator Award
2002 FRSQ Chercheur Boursier
1998 ‘German Research Foundation’ (DFG) Postdoctoral Fellow Award and stipend
1998 University of Trier Alumni Group PhD Award
1997 Center for Psychobiological and Psychosomatic Research, Trier, Germany: PhD Award
Publication Highlights
Lord C, Buss C, Lupien SJ, Pruessner JC (2008). Hippocampal volumes are larger in postmenopausal women using estrogen therapy compared to past users, never users and men: A possible window of opportunity effect. Neurobiology of Aging, 29(1), 95-101.
Pruessner JC, Dedovic K, Khalili Mahani N, Engert V, Pruessner M, Buss C, Renwick R, Dagher A, Meaney MJ, Lupien S (2008). Deactivation of the limbic system during acute psychosocial stress: evidence from positron emission tomography and functional magnetic resonance imaging studies. Biol Psychiatry, 63(2), 234-240.
Andrews J, Wadiwalla M, Juster RP, Lord C, Lupien SJ, Pruessner JC (2007). Effects of manipulating the amount of social-evaluative threat on the cortisol stress response in young healthy men. Behav Neurosci, 121(5), 871-876.
Pruessner JC, Baldwin M, Dedovic K, Renwick R, Khalili Mahani N, Meaney M & Lupien S (2005). Self-esteem, locus of control, hippocampal volume, and cortisol regulation in young and old adulthood. Neuroimage, 28(4), 815-26.
Dedovic K, Renwick R, Mahani NK, Engert V, Lupien SJ, Pruessner JC (2005). The Montreal Imaging Stress Task: using functional imaging to investigate the effects of perceiving and processing psychosocial stress in the human brain. Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, 30(5), 319-25.
