Glowinski, artist Outlaw address mental health through artwork.
Creative workshops help kids relieve stress with art (Links to an external site)
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Kepecs named BJC investigator (Links to an external site)
Adam Kepecs, PhD, recognized internationally for his research on neural circuits responsible for cognition and decision-making, has been named a BJC Investigator and a professor of neuroscience and psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
$10 million gift aimed at improving treatments for mental illness (Links to an external site)
Philanthropists Andrew and Barbara Taylor and the Crawford Taylor Foundation have committed $10 million to Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis to continue research to investigate the scientific underpinnings of psychiatric illnesses, with the goal of improving diagnosis and treatment.
Dr. Doug Covey as the inaugural Taylor Family Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry
“The Taylor Family Institute for Innovative Psychiatric Research is pleased to announce the installment of Dr. Doug Covey as the inaugural Taylor Family Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry. Doug’s medicinal chemistry work resulted in his co-founding of Sage Therapeutics, which recently brought brexanolone to market as the first drug to treat post-partum depression.”
How team sports change a child’s brain (Links to an external site)
Adult depression has long been associated with shrinkage of the hippocampus, a brain region that plays an important role in memory and response to stress. Now, new research from Washington University in St. Louis has linked participation in team sports to larger hippocampal volumes in children and less depression in boys ages 9 to 11.
Engineering treatments for the opioid epidemic (Links to an external site)
A biomedical engineer at Washington University in St. Louis is developing a therapeutic option that would prevent the opiates from crossing the blood-brain barrier, preventing the high abusers seek.
Blunting pain’s emotional component (Links to an external site)
Blocking a type of opioid receptor restores motivation
F.D.A. Approves First Drug for Postpartum Depression (Links to an external site)
The first drug for women suffering postpartum depression received federal approval on Tuesday, a move likely to pave the way for a wave of treatments to address a debilitating condition that is the most common complication of pregnancy.
Mobile phone technology to screen, help treat college students (Links to an external site)
A research team led by Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has received a five-year, $3.8 million grant to evaluate the use of smartphones in treating psychiatric problems that are common among college students.
Doctors address mental health crisis among Rohingya refugees (Links to an external site)
Washington University School of Medicine colleagues Rupa Patel, MD, and Anne Glowinski, MD, are working with an organization in Bangladesh to help deliver mental health care to Rohingya refugees from Myanmar.
Young kids with suicidal thoughts understand concept of death (Links to an external site)
Study refutes idea that children who talk about suicide don’t understand it
The view from the chair (Links to an external site)
Seven years ago, Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton (left) asked Andrew C. Taylor, executive chairman of Enterprise Holdings and a life trustee of the university, to chair the public phase of Leading Together.
Taylor Institute develops mice available from JAX Labs. (Links to an external site)
Also Known As: δ* KI δ* KI is a CRISPR/cas9-made knock-in allele with a T269Y mutation in Gabrd exon 8 that renders δ-containing receptor populations insensitive to picrotoxin (PTX). These mice allow chemogenetic isolation of δ-containing GABAA receptors, and may be useful for neurological studies of receptor, ion channel and synapse biology, neurotransmitters, and glutamate/GABA transmission.
Alcohol dependence, psychiatric disorders share genetic links (Links to an external site)
Key alcoholism gene influences how quickly body metabolizes alcohol
MRI scans shows promise in predicting dementia (Links to an external site)
Brain changes evident in scans before memory, cognitive decline
Taylors Provide $10 Million to Accelerate Psychiatric Drug Development (Links to an external site)
In 2012, Andrew and Barbara Taylor and the Crawford Taylor Foundation pledged $20 million to the Department of Psychiatry at Washington University’s School of Medicine to establish a research institute dedicated to advancing new treatments for mental illnesses. Just six years later, investigators in the department’s Taylor Family Institute for Innovative Psychiatric Research are on […]
Taylor family establishes $10 million scholarship challenge (Links to an external site)
A $10 million commitment from Andrew Taylor, a life trustee at Washington University in St. Louis, and his wife, Barbara, will establish the Taylor Family Scholarship Challenge, which will match all new and increased gifts for undergraduate scholarships received by the conclusion of Leading Together: The Campaign for Washington University on June 30, 2018, as well as […]
$3 million to help expand Wolfram syndrome research (Links to an external site)
Grant to renew annual clinic, advance understanding of rare disorder
Depression in Young Children is Treatable (Links to an external site)
Parent-child interactive therapy decreases depressive symptoms in kids.
We welcome Meaghan Creed and Lex Kravitz to the WashU Community!
We are so excited to have Meaghan Creed and Lex Kravitz headed to St. Louis to join the Washington University School of Medicine research community.