Genes in the brain’s immune cells may point to strategy to protect against the disease
Genes linked to Alzheimer’s risk, resilience ID’d (Links to an external site)
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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
$9.5 million aimed at detecting autism earlier in childhood (Links to an external site)
Multicenter grant funds infant brain imaging at Washington University and other centers
Creative workshops help kids relieve stress with art (Links to an external site)
Glowinski, artist Outlaw address mental health through artwork
$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.
Study seeks former opioid users who avoided addiction (Links to an external site)
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis are launching a large-scale study involving people who have used opioids recreationally but not become dependent on the drugs.