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Robert Edwards, M.D.

Neurologist

Dr. Robert Edwards is a neurologist and specialist in the treatment of Parkinson's disease who sees patients in the Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders Clinic at Parnassus.

In his research, he and his colleagues have identified several proteins implicated in Parkinson's. Edwards earned a medical degree at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and completed a residency in neurology at UCSF, where he is a professor of neurology and physiology. The recipient of numerous prestigious awards, he earned the Established Investigator Award of the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Affective Disorders, serves on several editorial boards and the scientific advisory board of the National Parkinson's Foundation.

Clinics

Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders Clinic
400 Parnassus Ave., Eighth Floor
San Francisco, CA 94143
Phone: (415) 353-2273
Fax: (415) 353-2898

Hours: Monday to Friday
8 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Conditions & Treatments

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Additional Languages

French

Education

Johns Hopkins School of Medicine 1980

Residencies

UCSF, Neurology 1984

Selected Research and Publications

  1. Michalski D, Härtig W, Krügel K, Edwards RH, Böddener M, Böhme L, Pannicke T, Reichenbach A, Grosche A. Region-specific expression of vesicular glutamate and GABA transporters under various ischaemic conditions in mouse forebrain and retina. Neuroscience. 2013 Feb 12; 231:328-44.
  2. Hnasko TS, Hjelmstad GO, Fields HL, Edwards RH. Ventral tegmental area glutamate neurons: electrophysiological properties and projections. J Neurosci. 2012 Oct 24; 32(43):15076-85.
  3. Akil O, Seal RP, Burke K, Wang C, Alemi A, During M, Edwards RH, Lustig LR. Restoration of hearing in the VGLUT3 knockout mouse using virally mediated gene therapy. Neuron. 2012 Jul 26; 75(2):283-93.
  4. Cunningham KA, Hua Z, Srinivasan S, Liu J, Lee BH, Edwards RH, Ashrafi K. AMP-activated kinase links serotonergic signaling to glutamate release for regulation of feeding behavior in C. elegans. Cell Metab. 2012 Jul 3; 16(1):113-21.
  5. Wu S, Avila-Sakar A, Kim J, Booth DS, Greenberg CH, Rossi A, Liao M, Li X, Alian A, Griner SL, Juge N, Yu Y, Mergel CM, Chaparro-Riggers J, Strop P, Tampé R, Edwards RH, Stroud RM, Craik CS, Cheng Y. Fabs enable single particle cryoEM studies of small proteins. Structure. 2012 Apr 4; 20(4):582-92.
  6. Blakely RD, Edwards RH. Vesicular and plasma membrane transporters for neurotransmitters. Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol. 2012 Feb; 4(2).
  7. Lee HY, Nakayama J, Xu Y, Fan X, Karouani M, Shen Y, Pothos EN, Hess EJ, Fu YH, Edwards RH, Ptácek LJ. Dopamine dysregulation in a mouse model of paroxysmal nonkinesigenic dyskinesia. J Clin Invest. 2012 Feb 1; 122(2):507-18.
  8. Lee HY, Huang Y, Bruneau N, Roll P, Roberson ED, Hermann M, Quinn E, Maas J, Edwards R, Ashizawa T, Baykan B, Bhatia K, Bressman S, Bruno MK, Brunt ER, Caraballo R, Echenne B, Fejerman N, Frucht S, Gurnett CA, Hirsch E, Houlden H, Jankovic J, Lee WL, Lynch DR, Mohammed S, Müller U, Nespeca MP, Renner D, Rochette J, Rudolf G, Saiki S, Soong BW, Swoboda KJ, Tucker S, Wood N, Hanna M, Bowcock AM, Szepetowski P, Fu YH, Ptácek LJ. Mutations in the gene PRRT2 cause paroxysmal kinesigenic dyskinesia with infantile convulsions. Cell Rep. 2012 Jan 26; 1(1):2-12.
  9. Brumovsky PR, Robinson DR, La JH, Seroogy KB, Lundgren KH, Albers KM, Kiyatkin ME, Seal RP, Edwards RH, Watanabe M, Hökfelt T, Gebhart GF. Expression of vesicular glutamate transporters type 1 and 2 in sensory and autonomic neurons innervating the mouse colorectum. J Comp Neurol. 2011 Nov 1; 519(16):3346-66.
  10. Hnasko TS, Edwards RH. Neurotransmitter corelease: mechanism and physiological role. Annu Rev Physiol. 2012; 74:225-43.
  11. Goh GY, Huang H, Ullman J, Borre L, Hnasko TS, Trussell LO, Edwards RH. Presynaptic regulation of quantal size: K+/H+ exchange stimulates vesicular glutamate transport. Nat Neurosci. 2011 Oct; 14(10):1285-92.
  12. Grimes WN, Seal RP, Oesch N, Edwards RH, Diamond JS. Genetic targeting and physiological features of VGLUT3+ amacrine cells. Vis Neurosci. 2011 Sep; 28(5):381-92.
  13. Hua Z, Leal-Ortiz S, Foss SM, Waites CL, Garner CC, Voglmaier SM, Edwards RH. v-SNARE composition distinguishes synaptic vesicle pools. Neuron. 2011 Aug 11; 71(3):474-87.
  14. Koch SM, Dela Cruz CG, Hnasko TS, Edwards RH, Huberman AD, Ullian EM. Pathway-specific genetic attenuation of glutamate release alters select features of competition-based visual circuit refinement. Neuron. 2011 Jul 28; 71(2):235-42.
  15. Higley MJ, Gittis AH, Oldenburg IA, Balthasar N, Seal RP, Edwards RH, Lowell BB, Kreitzer AC, Sabatini BL. Cholinergic interneurons mediate fast VGluT3-dependent glutamatergic transmission in the striatum. PLoS One. 2011; 6(4):e19155.
  16. Nakamura K, Nemani VM, Azarbal F, Skibinski G, Levy JM, Egami K, Munishkina L, Zhang J, Gardner B, Wakabayashi J, Sesaki H, Cheng Y, Finkbeiner S, Nussbaum RL, Masliah E, Edwards RH. Direct membrane association drives mitochondrial fission by the Parkinson disease-associated protein alpha-synuclein. J Biol Chem. 2011 Jun 10; 286(23):20710-26.
  17. Asensio CS, Sirkis DW, Edwards RH. RNAi screen identifies a role for adaptor protein AP-3 in sorting to the regulated secretory pathway. J Cell Biol. 2010 Dec 13; 191(6):1173-87.
  18. Scherrer G, Low SA, Wang X, Zhang J, Yamanaka H, Urban R, Solorzano C, Harper B, Hnasko TS, Edwards RH, Basbaum AI. VGLUT2 expression in primary afferent neurons is essential for normal acute pain and injury-induced heat hypersensitivity. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2010 Dec 21; 107(51):22296-301.
  19. Juge N, Gray JA, Omote H, Miyaji T, Inoue T, Hara C, Uneyama H, Edwards RH, Nicoll RA, Moriyama Y. Metabolic control of vesicular glutamate transport and release. Neuron. 2010 Oct 6; 68(1):99-112.
  20. Stuber GD, Hnasko TS, Britt JP, Edwards RH, Bonci A. Dopaminergic terminals in the nucleus accumbens but not the dorsal striatum corelease glutamate. J Neurosci. 2010 Jun 16; 30(24):8229-33.

Publications are derived from MEDLINE/PubMed and provided by UCSF Profiles, a service of the Clinical & Translational Science Institute (CTSI) at UCSF. Researchers can make corrections and additions by logging on to UCSF Profiles.

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