Fields Neuroscience Name Jane Stewart | Role Scientist Education University of London | |
Institutions Ayerst Pharmaceuticals, Concordia University Alma mater Queen's University, University of London | ||
Jane Stewart, OC is a Canadian neuroscientist who has been active in the fields of psychology, psychiatry, and psychopharmacology.
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Career
Stewart received her PhD in 1959 from the University of London, England. She then started working for Ayerst Pharmaceuticals in Montreal and subsequently joined Concordia University in 1962, where she served as chair of the Department of Psychology (1969–1974) and director of the Center for Studies in Behavioral Neurobiology (1990–1997). She served on many grant review committees and on the editorial boards of 11 peer-reviewed scientific journals.
Research
Stewart has made seminal contributions to different areas of research, such as conditioned drug effects, the motivational effects of drugs, circadian rhythms, antidepressant and antipsychotic drug action, and sexual behavior.
Honors
Stewart obtained an honorary degree from Queen's University and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Psychological Association, the Canadian Psychological Association, and the Royal Society of Canada, Academy of Sciences. She also received the highest civilian honor in her country, being appointed Officer in the Order of Canada in 2007. A special issue of the journal Biological Psychiatry was dedicated to her on the occasion of her retirement in 2008.