Anisman, Hymie - Medical Science - Carleton University
Hymie Anisman has been among the lead researchers assessing the effects of stressful experiences on the emergence of psychopathology. This research, which has involved both animal models and humans, has identified key biological processes affected by stressful events, and defined the conditions that favor vulnaribility and resilience to pathology.

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Anisman, Hymie - Medical Science - Carleton University
Hymie Anisman is internationally renowned, having produced an original and influential body of research regarding stressor-provoked brain neurochemical changes underlying mental illness. His influence, dating from the early 1970s, was instrumental in determining the trajectory of stress-related research. He was among the first to delineate the conditions under which stressors affect brain neurotransmitters, and the first to show that stressors sensitize biological systems, thereby increasing vulnerability to later illness development and recurrence. He was a pioneer in the emerging field of Psychoneuroimmunology, showing that stressors influence immunological functioning and conversely that immune alterations (cytokines) influence psychological illness.