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Overview

Scott Edwards is affiliated with Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans in the United States. Their research contributions span multiple areas within medicine and neuroscience, with a focus on pain mechanisms, neuroinflammation, stress responses, and behavioral neuroscience.

Edwards has published extensively on topics including:

  • Pain Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
  • Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research
  • Tryptophan and Brain Disorders
  • HIV Research and Treatment
  • Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms

Their work is primarily situated within the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience. Specific subfields in which Edwards publishes include Physiology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Pharmacology, Neurology, and Behavioral Neuroscience.

Frequent venues for Edwards's publications include:

  • Physiology
  • Neuropharmacology
  • Alcohol
  • Alcohol Clinical and Experimental Research
  • Journal of Neurotrauma

Some of the recent papers authored by Edwards cover diverse topics related to neurobiology, alcohol use disorder, and inflammatory pain:

  • IL-10 normalizes aberrant amygdala GABA transmission and reverses anxiety-like behavior and dependence-induced escalation of alcohol intake (2020), published in Progress in Neurobiology
  • Chronic ethanol induces a pro-inflammatory switch in interleukin-1β regulation of GABAergic signaling in the medial prefrontal cortex of male mice (2023), published in Brain Behavior and Immunity
  • Chronic inflammatory pain alters alcohol-regulated frontocortical signaling and associations between alcohol drinking and thermal sensitivity (2020), published in Neurobiology of Pain
  • Research Needs for Inpatient Management of Severe Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome: An Official American Thoracic Society Research Statement (2021), published in American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
  • Neurobiological aspects of pain in the context of alcohol use disorder (2020), published in International Review of Neurobiology

Edwards has collaborated frequently with peers such as Patricia E. Molina, Jessica A. Cucinello-Ragland, Kimberly N. Edwards, Nicholas W. Gilpin, and Taylor Fitzpatrick-Schmidt, reflecting a network of research partnerships in related domains.

Best Publications

  • Addiction as a Stress Surfeit Disorder

    George F. Koob;Cara L. Buck;Ami Cohen;Scott Edwards

  • Dynamic BDNF activity in nucleus accumbens with cocaine use increases self-administration and relapse

    Danielle L Graham;Scott Edwards;Ryan K Bachtell;Ralph J DiLeone

  • Alcohol dependence as a chronic pain disorder.

    Mark Egli;George F. Koob;Scott Edwards

  • Regulation of Drug Reward by cAMP Response Element-Binding Protein: Evidence for Two Functionally Distinct Subregions of the Ventral Tegmental Area

    Valerie G. Olson;Cyrus P. Zabetian;Cyrus P. Zabetian;Cyrus P. Zabetian;Carlos A. Bolanos;Carlos A. Bolanos;Scott Edwards

  • Glucocorticoid receptor antagonism decreases alcohol seeking in alcohol-dependent individuals

    Leandro F. Vendruscolo;David Estey;Vivian Goodell;Lauren G. Macshane

  • ΔFosB accumulates in a GABAergic cell population in the posterior tail of the ventral tegmental area after psychostimulant treatment

    Linda I. Perrotti;Carlos A. Bolaños;Carlos A. Bolaños;Kwang Ho Choi;Scott J. Russo

  • Long-lasting Reduction in Hippocampal Neurogenesis by Alcohol Consumption in Adolescent Nonhuman Primates

    Michael A. Taffe;Roxanne W. Kotzebue;Rebecca D. Crean;Elena F. Crawford

  • Escalation of drug self-administration as a hallmark of persistent addiction liability.

    Scott Edwards;George F. Koob

  • Neurobiology of dysregulated motivational systems in drug addiction

    Scott Edwards;George F Koob

  • Development of Mechanical Hypersensitivity in Rats During Heroin and Ethanol Dependence: Alleviation by CRF1 Receptor Antagonism

    Scott Edwards;Leandro F. Vendruscolo;Joel E. Schlosburg;Kaushik K. Misra

  • Tropomyosin-related kinase B in the mesolimbic dopamine system: region-specific effects on cocaine reward

    Danielle L. Graham;Danielle L. Graham;Vaishnav Krishnan;Erin B. Larson;Ami Graham

  • Traumatic stress reactivity promotes excessive alcohol drinking and alters the balance of prefrontal cortex-amygdala activity.

    S Edwards;B B Baynes;C Y Carmichael;E R Zamora-Martinez

  • A Vaccine Strategy that Induces Protective Immunity against Heroin

    G. Neil Stowe;Leandro F. Vendruscolo;Scott Edwards;Joel E. Schlosburg

  • A role for the endocannabinoid system in the increased motivation for cocaine in extended-access conditions.

    Laura Orio;Scott Edwards;Olivier George;Loren H Parsons

  • Animal Models of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Recent Neurobiological Insights

    Annie M. Whitaker;Nicholas W. Gilpin;Scott Edwards

  • Neural mechanisms of pain and alcohol dependence

    A. Vania Apkarian;Volker Neugebauer;George Koob;Scott Edwards

  • Levels of Neural Progenitors in the Hippocampus Predict Memory Impairment and Relapse to Drug Seeking as a Function of Excessive Methamphetamine Self-Administration

    Patrick Recinto;Anjali Rose H Samant;Gustavo Chavez;Airee Kim

  • Potent KCNQ2/3-specific channel activator suppresses in vivo epileptic activity and prevents the development of tinnitus.

    Bopanna I. Kalappa;Heun Soh;Kevin M. Duignan;Takeru Furuya

  • Addiction-related alterations in D1 and D2 dopamine receptor behavioral responses following chronic cocaine self-administration.

    Scott Edwards;Kimberly N Whisler;Dwain C Fuller;Paul J Orsulak

  • Dynamic vaccine blocks relapse to compulsive intake of heroin

    Joel E. Schlosburg;Leandro F. Vendruscolo;Paul T. Bremer;Jonathan W. Lockner

  • Evidence that vasopressin V1b receptors mediate the transition to excessive drinking in ethanol‐dependent rats

    Scott Edwards;Miguel Guerrero;Ola M. Ghoneim;Edward Roberts

Frequent Co-Authors

David W. Self
David W. Self The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Eric J. Nestler
Eric J. Nestler Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Michel Barrot
Michel Barrot Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Chitra D. Mandyam
Chitra D. Mandyam Veterans Health Administration
Olivier George
Olivier George University of California, San Diego
Marisa Roberto
Marisa Roberto Scripps Research Institute
Erin S. Calipari
Erin S. Calipari Vanderbilt University
Rachael L. Neve
Rachael L. Neve Harvard University
Ming-Hu Han
Ming-Hu Han Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Muhammad Farooq
Muhammad Farooq Sultan Qaboos University

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