Category: Clinical Research

Research focuses on precisely how the disease develops in the brain

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.

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

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.

$3.7 million will help evaluate Family-based Behavioral Treatment

Medical challenges at birth less important than stressful home life in predicting future psychiatric health

Siteman Cancer Center expands smoking-cessation efforts

Identifying kids who control their tics may help others at risk for Tourette syndrome

“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.