Medicine & Health

People with severe, treatment-resistant depression who received vagus nerve stimulation therapy showed improvement in depressive symptoms, quality of life and ability to complete everyday tasks, according to a national clinical trial led by researchers at WashU Medicine.

WashU senior Emma Lembke, 22, has earned a spot on Forbes’ “30 Under 30” social media list. Lembke co-founded  Log Off, an organization for and by teens who want to raise awareness about social media’s impact on mental health.

WashU Medicine researchers are helping transform mind-bending psychedelics into treatments for devastating mental illnesses.

WashU researcher Deanna Barch was recognized by two national organizations for her work on schizophrenia and other mental health conditions.

Brain science researchers at WashU are studying how the brain perceives, processes and remembers everyday events. Their goal is to create an intervention that could improve memory by helping people segment events.

Researchers at Washington University are identifying behavioral, environmental and neural factors through which genetic risk for mental health problems is expressed in youth.

Kirk Dougher, associate vice chancellor for student support and wellness at WashU, explains what colleges are doing to help their students during this fraught election season and what steps students can take to better cope.

WashU researchers have received a National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to explore the potential for mindfulness approaches to protect against dementia in groups of older Latinx adults.

A study conducted by Theresa Gildner, an assistant professor of biological anthropology in Arts & Sciences, suggests that prenatal depression can having a lasting impact on the mother’s child, influencing how he or she responds to stress.

A School of Medicine brain-imaging study on the effects of psilocybin, the active compound in magic mushrooms, provides a neurobiological explanation for the drug’s mind-bending effects.