$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.
Mobile phone technology to screen, help treat college students (Links to an external site)
With a growing demand for mental health services at colleges, a research team led by Denise E. Wilfley, PhD, has received a $3.8 million grant to test a mental health phone app to treat depression, anxiety and eating disorders in a study involving some 8,000 students at 20 colleges, universities and community colleges.
Repetitive behaviors tied to brain activity patterns in toddlers (Links to an external site)
“We believe that this is one of the first, if not the first, studies of functional brain connectivity in relationship to restricted and repetitive behaviors in the first years of life,” says lead investigator John Pruett, associate professor of psychiatry.
Why are there so few autism specialists? (Links to an external site)
Assistant professor and child psychiatrist Natasha Marrus, MD, PhD, shares her experience specializing in autism.
Cicero receives Pioneer Award (Links to an external site)
Theodore J. Cicero, PhD, is the 2018 recipient of the Pioneer Award from the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse (NCADA).