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Marc Weisskopf

Mark and Catherine Winkler Assistant Professor of Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology

Department of Environmental Health

Department of Epidemiology

401 Park Dr., Rm 3-104
Landmark Center, PO Box 15697
Boston, Massachusetts 02215
617.384.8872
mweissko@hsph.harvard.edu

Education

ScB, Neuroscience, Brown University, 1989
PhD, Neuroscience, University of California, San Francisco, 1994
ScD, Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, 2006

Selected Publications

Weisskopf MG, O'Reilly E, Chen H, Schwarzschild MA, Ascherio A. Plasma urate and risk of Parkinson's disease; Am. J. Epidemiol., 166(5):561-567, 2007. 

Weisskopf MG, Hu H, Sparrow D, Lenkinski RE, Wright RO; Proton Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Evidence of Glial Effects of Cumulative Lead Exposure in the Adult Human Hippocampus; Environ. Health. Perspect., 115(4):519-523, 2007

Weisskopf MG, Myers GJ; Cumulative effect of lead on cognition: Is bone more revealing than blood? Neurology, 67(9):1536-7, 2006.

Weisskopf MG, O’Reilly EJ, McCullough, ML, Calle EE, Thun MJ, Cudkowicz M, Ascherio A; Prospective study of military service and mortality from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; Neurology, 64(1):32-7, 2005.

Weisskopf MG, Wright RO, Schwartz J, Spiro III A, Sparrow D, Aro A, Hu H; Cumulative lead exposure and prospective change in cognition among elderly men: the VA Normative Aging Study; Am. J. Epidemiol., 160(12):1184-93, 2004.

Weisskopf MG, Hu H, Mulkern RV, White R, Aro A, Oliveira S, Wright RO; Cognitive Deficits and Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy in Adult Monozygotic Twins with Lead Poisoning; Environ. Health. Perspect., 112(5):620-625, 2004.

Weisskopf MG , Chen H, Schwarzschild MA, Kawachi I, Ascherio A; Prospective study of phobic anxiety and risk of Parkinson’s disease; Mov. Disord., 18(6):646-51, 2003 .

Weisskopf MG , Hanrahan LP, Anderson HA, for the Great Lakes Consortium; Decreased sex ratio following maternal exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls from contaminated Great Lakes sport-caught fish: a retrospective cohort study; Environ. Health., 2:2, 2003.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Public health dispatch: Potential risk of lead exposure in dental offices; Morb Mort. Wkly Rep., 50(40):873-874, 2001.

Weisskopf MG, Bauer EP, LeDoux JE; L-type voltage-gated calcium channels mediate NMDA-independent associative long-term potentiation at thalamic input synapses to the amygdala; J. Neurosci., 19:10512-10519, 1999.

Weisskopf MG, Castillo PE, Zalutsky RA, Nicoll RA; Mediation of hippocampal mossy fiber long-term potentiation by cyclic AMP; Science, 265:1878-1882, 1994.

Weisskopf MG, Zalutsky RA, Nicoll RA; The opioid peptide dynorphin mediates heterosynaptic depression of hippocampal mossy fibre synapses and modulates long-term potentiation; Nature, 362:423-427, 1993.