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Podcast: International effort aims to help those at risk for serious psychiatric illness (Links to an external site)
This episode of ‘Show Me the Science’ focuses on efforts in St. Louis and Kenya to ID and treat young people at risk for schizophrenia and other serious conditions
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. […]
Staying in the lines (Links to an external site)
WashU coaching program strengthens research integrity on a national scale
Rogers named director of child psychiatry division (Links to an external site)
Recognized for work on brain development in premature babies
Cigarette smokers who try to quit often end up vaping and smoking (Links to an external site)
Cessation treatment can aid such dual nicotine users
3rd year psychiatry resident, Simone Bernstein, selected to be the APA/APAF Leadership Fellow representative to the APA Board of Trustees (Links to an external site)
APA’s priorities, policies, and budgets are determined and approved by the Board of Trustees.
St. Louis Children’s Hospital & Washington University School of Medicine to develop a new care model to improve behavioral health of children thanks to the Hermann family (Links to an external site)
New research center will serve as a platform to transform behavioral health starting with the family unit
Promoting resilience in health-care workers aim of new grant (Links to an external site)
WashU receives part of $103 million to address depression, anxiety related to pandemic
Antipsychotic drugs may increase risk of breast cancer (Links to an external site)
Study focuses on role of the hormone prolactin