New investigation of psychedelics (Links to an external site)
Category: In the News
Taylor family offers new support to WashU (Links to an external site)
Leadership role for Scientific Director (Links to an external site)
Young people at risk (Links to an external site)
The Washington Early Recognition Center specializes in youth psychosis
Covey, Milbrandt, Moran named to National Academy of Inventors (Links to an external site)
Faculty members honored for ‘highly prolific spirit of innovation’
Risk of schizophrenia assessed with new screening tool (Links to an external site)
16-question tool designed to identify young people at high risk
Promoting resilience in health-care workers aim of new grant (Links to an external site)
WashU receives part of $103 million to address depression, anxiety related to pandemic
WashU part of $65 million NIH study of schizophrenia in young people (Links to an external site)
Teens, young adults needed for study aimed at improving early diagnosis
Antidepressant may prevent severe COVID-19, follow-up study indicates (Links to an external site)
Low-cost drug lowers risk of hospitalizations, deaths
Older people’s resilience during pandemic focus of $9 million grant (Links to an external site)
Research to explore the effects of social isolation on cognitive, emotional health
$12.2 million to fund new Conte Center to study neurosteroids (Links to an external site)
Complements efforts of Taylor Family Institute to develop treatments for psychiatric illness
$6.2 million grant to fund Center for Perioperative Mental Health (Links to an external site)
Researchers to study ways to improve mental health for surgery patients
Dr. Mamah Announced the 2021 Recipient of the Dr. John M. Anderson Excellence in Mental Health Award
Dr. Daniel Mamah was announced as this year’s recipient of the 2021 Dr. John M. Anderson Excellence in Mental Health Award. The St. Louis County Children’s Service Fund honors a mental healthcare professional each year who has made significant contributions in the field of behavioral health. Dr. John M. Anderson was an African American psychiatrist […]
Laughing gas relieves symptoms in people with treatment-resistant depression (Links to an external site)
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the University of Chicago have found that a single, one-hour treatment that involves breathing in a mixture of oxygen and the anesthetic drug nitrous oxide — otherwise known as laughing gas — can significantly improve symptoms in people with treatment-resistant depression.
Finding a possible early treatment for COVID-19 in a 40-year-old antidepressant (Links to an external site)
Sharyn Alfonsi reports on the unusual path fluvoxamine, a drug commonly used to treat obsessive-compulsive disorder, has had to becoming an early treatment candidate for COVID-19
Fluvoxamine may prevent serious illness in COVID-19 patients (Links to an external site)
Antidepressant drug repurposed for patients with coronavirus infection
Pandemic is influencing perinatal/postpartum depression, anxiety (Links to an external site)
Fear of contracting or spreading COVID-19 might be increasing the severity of these symptoms, notes Dr. Cynthia Rogers.
Nasal Spray Is A New Antidepressant Option For People At High Risk of Suicide (Links to an external site)
The Food and Drug Administration has approved a variant of the anesthetic and party drug ketamine for suicidal patients with major depression.
2 Psychiatry Faculty Receive 2020 Achievement Awards (Links to an external site)
Joan Luby, MD, director of the School of Medicine’s Early Emotional Development Program and the Samuel and Mae S. Ludwig Professor of Child Psychiatry, will receive the Carl and Gerty Cori Faculty Achievement Award. Douglas F. Covey, the Andrew C. and Barbara B. Taylor Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry at the School of Medicine, will receive […]
WUSM to break ground on major neuroscience research hub (Links to an external site)
Washington University in St. Louis will begin construction in March on what will be one of the largest neuroscience research buildings in the country.
Covey named Taylor Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry (Links to an external site)
Professorship supports research in new treatment strategies for psychiatric illness
Creative workshops help kids relieve stress with art (Links to an external site)
Glowinski, artist Outlaw address mental health through artwork.
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.
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.
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
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.