Creative workshops help kids relieve stress with art (Links to an external site)
Glowinski, artist Outlaw address mental health through artwork
Adam Kepecs, PhD 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.
$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.