Additional Titles & Roles
- Professor of Radiology
- Director, Treatment Resistant Depression and Neurostimulation Clinic
- Director, Washington University Center for the Advancement of Research in Resistant Mood and Affective Disorders (CARRMA)
- Interventional Psychiatry Rotation Director
Education & Training
- Residency: Duke University, Durham, NC, 1999
- M.D.: University of Missouri Columbia, 1995
Major Awards
- Best Doctors in America, (Best Doctors, Inc.), 2006-2025, 2025
- Ziskind-Somerfeld Research Award, Society of Biological Psychiatry, 2016
- Resident Faculty Teaching Award, Washington University, 2014
- Resident Mentor Award, Washington University, 2011
- NARSAD Sidney Baer Award, 2007
- Resident Faculty Teaching Award, St. Louis University, 2004, 2007
Areas of Clinical Interest
mood disorders, treatment-resistant mood disorders, bipolar disorders
Research Interests
treatment-resistant depression (TRD) phenomenology, novel treatments for TRD, neuroimaging of mood disorders, bipolar disorders
Recent Publications
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Prognostic and Prescriptive Predictors of Treatment Response to Adjunctive VNS Therapy in Major Depressive Disorder: A RECOVER Trial Report
Aaronson, S. T., Conway, C. R., Gordon, C., Lee, Y. C. L., George, M. S., Zajecka, J., Riva-Posse, P., Dunner, D. L., Macaluso, M., Rosenquist, P. B., Mickey, B. J., Sheline, Y. I., Hristidis, V. C., Brown, H., Kriedt, C. L., Tran, Q., Bunker, M. T., Sackeim, H. A. & Rush, A. J., Jul 14 2025, In: The Journal of clinical psychiatry. 86, 3
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Characterizing the effects of vagus nerve stimulation on symptom improvement in markedly treatment-resistant major depressive disorder: A RECOVER trial report
Sackeim, H. A., Conway, C. R., Aaronson, S. T., Bunker, M. T., Gordon, C., Lee, Y. C., Shy, O., Majewski, S., Tran, Q. & Rush, A. J., Jul 1 2025, In: Journal of affective disorders. 380, p. 135-145 11 p.
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Vagus nerve stimulation in treatment-resistant depression: A one-year, randomized, sham-controlled trial
Conway, C. R., Aaronson, S. T., Sackeim, H. A., George, M. S., Zajecka, J., Bunker, M. T., Duffy, W., Stedman, M., Riva-Posse, P., Allen, R. M., Quevedo, J., Berger, M., Alva, G., Malik, M. A., Dunner, D. L., Cichowicz, I., Banov, M., Manu, L., Nahas, Z. & Macaluso, M. & 9 others, , May 1 2025, In: Brain Stimulation. 18, 3, p. 676-689 14 p.
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Effects of vagus nerve stimulation on daily function and quality of life in markedly treatment-resistant major depression: Findings from a one-year, randomized, sham-controlled trial
Rush, A. J., Conway, C. R., Aaronson, S. T., George, M. S., Riva-Posse, P., Dunner, D. L., Zajecka, J., Bunker, M. T., Quevedo, J., Allen, R. M., Alva, G., Luing, H., Nahas, Z., Manu, L., Bennett, J. I., Mickey, B. J., Becker, J., Sheline, Y., Cusin, C. & Murrough, J. W. & 7 others, , May 1 2025, In: Brain Stimulation. 18, 3, p. 690-700 11 p.
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Suicide characteristics in patients with marked treatment-resistant major depressive disorder: A RECOVER trial report
de Leon, V. C., Allen, R. M., Quevedo, J., Riva-Posse, P., Aaronson, S. T., Berger, M. A., Zajecka, J., Banov, M. D., Manu, L. M., Sheline, Y. I., Farrington, J., Eloge, J. C., Beard, J., Kriedt, C. L., Gott, B. M., Brown, H., Bunker, M. T., Lee, Y. C., Rush, A. J. & Sackeim, H. A. & 1 others, , Apr 1 2025, In: Journal of affective disorders. 374, p. 619-629 11 p.