Prof. Mark Edwards

Mark Edwards (MBBS, BSc (Hons), PhD, FRCP) is Professor of Neurology and Interface Disorders at Kings College London and Honorary Consultant Neurologist at The Maudsley and Kings College Hospitals.

He has a specialist clinical and research interest in both Movement Disorders (e.g. Parkinson's Disease, Tremor, Dystonia, Tics) and Functional Neurological Disorder (FND). He did his PhD with Professor John Rothwell and Professor Kailash Bhatia at the UCL Institute of Neurology, studying the pathophysiology of DYT1 dystonia. During this period he was involved with the development of a novel and now widely used technique for transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) called Theta Burst Stimulation. Following completion of neurology training he became a Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant Neurologist at UCL and the National Hospital for Neurology. Here he developed a research program including an influential predictive coding account of functional neurological symptoms and a specialist diagnostic and treatment service for patients with FND. After moving to St George’s in 2015 he expanded this work to develop one of the first integrated diagnostic and treatment services for FND alongside continued research work into the pathophysiology of movement disorders and development and testing of novel treatments, including the first randomised multicentre trial of specialist physiotherapy for functional movement disorders. He led the development of a national UK pathway for Functional Neurological Disorder in 2022. He was appointed as Professor of Neurology and Interface Disorders at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London and Consultant Neurologist at the Maudsley and King’s College Hospital in September 2022.

He has published over 500 peer reviewed publications and is author of the Oxford Specialist Handbook of Parkinson’s Disease and Other Movement Disorders. He is Past President of the Association of British Neurology Movement Disorders Group, Founding Member of the Functional Neurological Disorder Society, co-chair of the European Academy of Neurology Scientific Panel for FND, Deputy Editor of the European Journal of Neurology, and medical advisor for FNDHope and the British Association of Performing Arts Medicine. He is the winner of the Jon Stolk Award for Movement Disorders research from the American Academy of Neurology, the David Marsden Award for Dystonia research, the Queen Square Prize and the Uschi Tschabitscher prize for research from the European Academy of Neurology and the Stanley Fahn Award from the International Parkinson's and Movement Disorders Society.