Personalized brain maps could improve treatment for Parkinson’s disease, other neurological conditions
Why doesn’t deep-brain stimulation work for everyone? (Links to an external site)
Category: Research
Halting opioid abuse aim of several grants from NIH, CDC (Links to an external site)
Tapped for their work aimed at stemming opioid abuse and halting what has become an epidemic in the United States, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have received federal grants totaling more than $10 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Brain imaging of babies with Down syndrome focus of $11.5 million grant (Links to an external site)
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.
New antidepressants on horizon (Links to an external site)
Neurosteroid drugs result from Taylor Family Institute, pharma collaboration
Childhood obesity in low-income Missouri families aim of CDC grant (Links to an external site)
$3.7 million will help evaluate Family-based Behavioral Treatment
Stable home lives improve prospects for preemies (Links to an external site)
Medical challenges at birth less important than stressful home life in predicting future psychiatric health
Genes linked to Alzheimer’s risk, resilience ID’d (Links to an external site)
Genes in the brain’s immune cells may point to strategy to protect against the disease
More cancer patients get help to quit smoking (Links to an external site)
Siteman Cancer Center expands smoking-cessation efforts
Understanding how tics are suppressed may help some at risk for tic disorders (Links to an external site)
Identifying kids who control their tics may help others at risk for Tourette syndrome
Metcalfe gift supports study of adversity’s effects on children’s brains (Links to an external site)
Work will aid effort to understand role of nature versus nurture