Opportunity for Collaboration: Meet Our Newest Faculty Member!

Breno Diniz, MD, PhD, joined the faculty of WashU Medicine Department of Psychiatry on April 1, 2026, as professor of psychiatry in the Division of Clinical Neuroscience and Behavioral Health.  Dr. Diniz is a geriatric psychiatrist who brings cutting-edge translational research expertise in using new multi-omic biomarkers of brain aging and neuropsychiatric disorders to understand […]

Psych Rounds (Links to an external site)

The April 9th psychiatry podcast, Psych Rounds, featured Dr. Charles Conway and Dr. Vasilis Hristidis discussing the topic of nitrous oxide.

Exercise didn’t help brain function in older people, surprising study results show (Links to an external site)

“Based on a lot of observational evidence, as well as some smaller clinical trials, we expected to see that older adults who engage in exercise would show improvements in memory and thinking as well as improvements, maybe increases, in the size of the structures of their brain that underlie those aspects of cognition,” study co-author Dr. […]