Edgar García‐Rill

High Impact

Prefoessor and Director, Center for Translational Neuroscience

UAMS primary UA Little Rock University of Arkansas

Also affiliated: California Institute of Technology (1974); Arkansas Children's Hospital (2008); United States Department of Veterans Affairs (2005); Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (2016); Inserm (2016); University of California, Los Angeles (1974–1987); The University of Queensland (2016); Université Joseph Fourier (2016); University of Toronto (2016); Universidad de Buenos Aires (2019); Toronto Western Hospital (2016); University of Arkansas Medical Center (2005–2019); University of Chicago (1977–1980); Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System (2007); VA Pacific Islands Health Care System (2005); Institut du Cerveau (2016); National Center for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (2005); Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute (2016); McGill University (1971–1974)

52 h-index 286 pubs 9,751 cited

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Edgar García‐Rill's research focuses on the neurobiology of movement and arousal. He investigates the control of voluntary movement and locomotion, with interests in spinal cord injury and motor disorders such as Parkinson's disease and Huntington's disease. His work also explores the mechanisms controlling arousal and sleep-wake cycles, including a recent description of a novel mechanism for sleep-wake control based on electrical coupling.

Dr. García‐Rill directs the Center for Translational Neuroscience at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), where he holds professorships in Neurobiology and Developmental Sciences and Psychiatry. He has been continuously funded for his research for over 35 years. His scholarly contributions include 287 publications with over 9,700 citations, and an h-index of 53, designating him as a highly cited researcher. He collaborates with researchers at UAMS, including Aliyah Glover, Lakshmi Pillai, Tuhin Virmani, and Rohit Dhall.

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h-index: 52
Publications: 286
Citations: 9,751

Positions

Prefoessor and Director, Center for Translational Neuroscience 1978–present

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Neurobiology ORCID

Selected Publications

Lessons Learned From a Delayed‐Start Trial of Modafinil for Freezing of Gait in Parkinson's Disease (2025)

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Contributors (2021)

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Deep brain stimulation for understanding the sleep-wake phenomena (2021)

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Change in EEG Activity is Associated with a Decrease in Tinnitus Awareness after rTMS. (2021)

PubMed 6 citations OpenAlex
Differential effects of HDAC inhibitors on PPN oscillatory activity in vivo (2019)

Neuropharmacology 7 citations DOI OpenAlex
The pedunculopontine nucleus: From posture and locomotion to neuroepigenetics (2019)

AIMS neuroscience 14 citations DOI OpenAlex
The critical role of persistent sodium current in hippocampal gamma oscillations (2019)

Neuropharmacology 11 citations DOI OpenAlex
Proteomic measures of gamma oscillations (2019)

Heliyon 8 citations DOI OpenAlex
Focus on the pedunculopontine nucleus. Consensus review from the May 2018 brainstem society meeting in Washington, DC, USA (2019)

Clinical Neurophysiology 66 citations DOI OpenAlex
Neuroepigenetics of arousal: Gamma oscillations in the pedunculopontine nucleus (2019)

Journal of Neuroscience Research 7 citations DOI OpenAlex
HDAC superfamily promoters acetylation is differentially regulated by modafinil and methamphetamine in the mouse medial prefrontal cortex (2019)

Addiction Biology 22 citations DOI OpenAlex
Impaired step‐length setting prior to turning in Parkinson's disease patients with freezing of gait (2018)

Movement Disorders 28 citations DOI OpenAlex
Bottom‐up gamma and bipolar disorder, clinical and neuroepigenetic implications (2018)

Bipolar Disorders 12 citations DOI OpenAlex
The Critical Role of Intrinsic Membrane Oscillations (2018)

Neurosignals 14 citations DOI OpenAlex
Class II histone deacetylases require P/Q-type Ca2+ channels and CaMKII to maintain gamma oscillations in the pedunculopontine nucleus (2018)

Scientific Reports 17 citations DOI OpenAlex