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Category: Clinical Research

Finding a possible early treatment for COVID-19 in a 40-year-old antidepressant (Links to an external site)

March 8, 2021April 13, 2021

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

Opioid overdose reduced in patients taking buprenorphine (Links to an external site)

March 4, 2021April 13, 2021

Study indicates the drug is effective in opioid users who also take benzodiazepines for anxiety, other conditions

Young people with disabilities focus of COVID-19 testing grant (Links to an external site)

November 20, 2020November 20, 2020

$5 million grant to fund saliva tests for students, teachers, staff in schools operated by Special School District of St. Louis County

Fluvoxamine may prevent serious illness in COVID-19 patients (Links to an external site)

November 12, 2020November 12, 2020

Antidepressant drug repurposed for patients with coronavirus infection

College students access eating disorders therapy via phone app (Links to an external site)

September 1, 2020September 1, 2020

Multi-university study shows app can help students reduce symptoms, ease depression

Nasal Spray Is A New Antidepressant Option For People At High Risk of Suicide (Links to an external site)

August 11, 2020August 11, 2020

In 2019, the FDA approved Spravato for patients with major depressive disorder who hadn’t responded to other treatments. Now, the agency is adding patients who are having suicidal thoughts or have recently attempted to harm themselves or take their own lives.

$29 million for new phase of international Alzheimer’s study (Links to an external site)

January 17, 2020April 24, 2020

Research focuses on precisely how the disease develops in the brain

Nature vs. nurture: Studying adversity’s effects on children’s brains (Links to an external site)

January 16, 2020April 24, 2020

Compelled by the potential to improve the lives of vulnerable children, emeritus trustee Walter Metcalfe and his wife, Cynthia, have committed nearly $4 million through outright and estate gifts to support the work of Joan L. Luby, MD, a highly regarded child psychiatrist.

Why doesn’t deep-brain stimulation work for everyone? (Links to an external site)

December 11, 2019April 24, 2020

Personalized brain maps could improve treatment for Parkinson’s disease, other neurological conditions

Brain imaging of babies with Down syndrome focus of $11.5 million grant (Links to an external site)

November 25, 2019April 24, 2020

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have received a five-year, $11.5 million grant to lead a multicenter effort to understand how brain development in babies with Down syndrome differs from that in other babies.

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