By Emily Curtsinger–
Steven Maier, who is a professor of psychology and neuroscience and the director of the Center of Neuroscience at the University of Colorado-Boulder, has been awarded the 2016 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Psychology.
Maier has been praised for discovering a brain mechanism that produces resilience to trauma and also aids in coping with future adversity. This was the 16th psychology award given.
His work regarding what makes one resistant or vulnerable to stress when adversity is presented has been replicated in humans using neuroimaging techniques.
“Outside the scientific community, Dr.