Stafford Lightman

Professor of Medicine, University of Bristol, UK

I’m Professor of Medicine at the University of Bristol, and I research how the brain affects the body’s hormones, and vice versa.

I am a neuroendocrinologist and the Director of the Henry Wellcome Laboratories for Integrative Neuroscience and Endocrinology. My work focuses on the mechanisms through which the brain recognises environmental stress and disease, and the pathways it uses to initiate appropriate responses in physiological regulation and gene transcription.

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Publications

Zavala, E., Voliotis, M., Zerenner, T., et al. (2020). Dynamic hormone control of stress and fertility. bioRxiv.
Lightman, S. L., Birnie, M. T., & Conway-Campbell, B. L. (2020). Dynamics of ACTH and Cortisol Secretion and Implications for Disease. Endocrine Reviews, 41(3), 470–490.
Stubbs, F. E., Conway-Campbell, B. L., & Lightman, S. (2019). Thirty years of neuroendocrinology: Technological advances pave the way for molecular discovery. Journal of Neuroendocrinology, 31(3).
Russell, G., & Lightman, S. (2019). The human stress response. Nature Reviews Endocrinology, 15, 525–534.
Dzogang, F., Lightman, S., & Cristianini, N. (2017). Circadian mood variations in Twitter content. Brain and Neuroscience Advances, 1, 1–14.
Lightman, S. (2016). Rhythms Within Rhythms: The Importance of Oscillations for Glucocorticoid Hormones. In P. Sassone-Corsi, & Y. Christen (Eds.), A Time for Metabolism and Hormones (pp. 87–99). Springer.

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