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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Assessing symptom severity in patients with markedly treatment-resistant depression: Insights from the RECOVER trial
Rush, A. J., Sackeim, H. A., Lee, Y. C., Conway, C. R., Aaronson, S. T., Bunker, M. T., Quevedo, J., Alva, G. & Carmody, T., Jun 15 2026, In: Journal of affective disorders. 403, 121447.
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Rapid antidepressant potential of nitrous oxide: current state and major questions
Zorumski, C. F., Cichon, J., Izumi, Y., Zeffiro, T., Mennerick, S., Nagele, P. & Conway, C. R., Jun 2026, In: Molecular Psychiatry. 31, 6, p. 3022-3032 11 p.
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Durability of the benefit of vagus nerve stimulation in markedly treatment-resistant major depression: a RECOVER trial report
Conway, C. R., Rush, A. J., Aaronson, S. T., Bunker, M. T., Gordon, C., George, M. S., Riva-Posse, P., Allen, R. M., Nahas, Z., Kriedt, C. L., Zajecka, J., Dunner, D. L., Quevedo, J., Sheline, Y., Duffy, W., Mickey, B. J., Stedman, M., Alva, G., Manu, L. & Tran, Q. & 12 others, , Jan 1 2026, In: International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology. 29, 1, pyaf080.
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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., 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., Sep 2025, In: Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. 86, 3, 25m15850.
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Antidepressant Effects of Nitrous Oxide in Major Depressive Disorder: A Phase 2b Randomized Clinical Trial
Myles, P. S., Kulkarni, J., Kasza, J., Wallace, S., Deng, C., Turbić, A., Aykanat, V., Conway, C. R., Brown, F., Lee, R., Gibbons, R. D. & Nagele, P., Jul 2025, In: Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science. 5, 4, 100504.