Assistant Professor at University of California-Los Angeles
Greater Los Angeles Area
- Current
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- Assistant Professor at UCLA Semel Institute of Neuroscience and Human Behavior, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
- Physician at UCLA
- Assistant Professor at University of California-Los Angeles
- Past
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- Clinical Instructor at UCLA: Dept. of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
- Psychiatrist at UC San Francisco
- Psychiatric Emergency Room Physician at UCSF/SF General
- Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University
- Resident & Fellow at Stanford University Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
- Education
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- Stanford University
- Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
- Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
- Vassar College
- Hewlett
- Connections
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- Industry
- Mental Health Care
- Websites
Eric M. Wexler M.D., Ph.D.’s Summary
Dr. Wexler is a psychopharmacologist specializing in the diagnosis and management of patients with difficult to treat psychiatric illness, particularly in those individuals with a coexisting neurological and/or genetic disease. He is accepting a limited number of consultation requests. If you wish to schedule an appointment with Dr. Wexler please fax a brief description of the problem and any relevant supporting documents to 310-267-2371.
Dr. Wexler is an assistant professor in the Division of Geriatric Psychiatry at UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine, the Semel Institute’s Center for Neurobehavioral Genetics and consultant to the UCLA Neurogenetics clinic and Huntington’s Disease Center of Excellence. Dr. Wexler received his MD/PhD from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1998, prior to completing residency and fellowship training in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at Stanford University. Subsequently, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship in neurogenetics at the UCLA School of Medicine and joined the UCLA faculty in 2006.
Dr. Wexler's research explores how nerve cells can be stimulated to regenerate, especially in brains ravaged by diseases like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, Huntington’s and Frontotemporal dementias. He is using human neural stem cells (NSCs) harvested from adult and fetal post-mortem brains as an in vitro model of neuronal regeneration and development. Ultimately, by understanding the signals present during fetal brain development, we can learn how to reactivate these pathways in diseased adult brains. Relatedly, he is exploiting this system to obtain an improved understanding of how manipulating Wnt signals may explain the efficacy of accepted treatments for major mood disorders. In addition, he is generating new human NSC lines from diseased individuals, with the intent that these may be developed as tractable model systems for genomic and pheomic study of neuropsychiatric disease.
Eric M. Wexler M.D., Ph.D.’s Specialties:
Psychopharmacology
Neuropsychiatry
Stem-Cell Biology
Nanotechnology
Eric M. Wexler M.D., Ph.D.’s Experience
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Assistant Professor
UCLA Semel Institute of Neuroscience and Human Behavior, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
(Research industry)
July 2006 — Present (3 years 1 month)
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Physician
UCLA
(Mental Health Care industry)
2004 — Present (5 years)
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Assistant Professor
University of California-Los Angeles
(Research industry)
July 2004 — Present (5 years 1 month)
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Clinical Instructor
UCLA: Dept. of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
(Medical Practice industry)
July 2004 — July 2006 (2 years 1 month)
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Psychiatrist
UC San Francisco
(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Research industry)
2002 — 2006 (4 years)
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Psychiatric Emergency Room Physician
UCSF/SF General
(Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Medical Practice industry)
January 2002 — July 2005 (3 years 7 months)
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Postdoctoral Fellow
Stanford University
(Medical Practice industry)
2002 — 2004 (2 years)
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Resident & Fellow
Stanford University Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
(Mental Health Care industry)
1998 — 2004 (6 years)
Eric M. Wexler M.D., Ph.D.’s Education
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Stanford University
Residency , Psychiatry , 1998 — 2004
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Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
Ph.D. , Neuroscience , 1989 — 1998
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Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
M.D. , 1989 — 1998
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Vassar College
A.B. , Biochemistry , 1985 — 1989
- Activities and Societies:
- Phi Beta Kappa
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Hewlett
1980 — 1985
Additional Information
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Stanford University Medical Center Alumni Association
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