Medicine & Health

The Jansky/Bander Family Fund, a generous commitment of $1.1 million over five years, has been established to advance critical initiatives within the Section of Movement Disorders in the Department of Neurology at WashU Medicine.

About 55 high school students from the St. Louis region and beyond tested their knowledge of the human brain and learned about neuroscience careers at the 15th annual St. Louis Area Brain Bee March 8 at Washington University in St. Louis.

Researchers at Washington University find high social disadvantage may limit the benefits of parenting on language and cognition.

WashU Medicine has received a three-year $4.5 million grant from the Carol and Gene Ludwig Family Foundation, with the ultimate goal of developing new treatments for Alzheimer’s disease.

Jeffrey M. Zacks, an expert in memory and neuroscience, was installed as the Edgar James Swift Professor in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis during a Feb. 4 ceremony.

Li-Feng Jiang-Xie, a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Pathology and Immunology at WashU Medicine, has received the 2024 WashU Medicine Bold Pioneer Award.

A new neural network model by researchers at Washington University offers a way to uncover what brain mechanisms are at play when people need to focus amid many distractions.

Researchers at WashU Medicine Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology have identified specific neuronal cells that are essential to our understanding of other people.

Neuroscientists at Washington University have set up computer frameworks that can help model individual brain dynamics.

A new study led by WashU Medicine researchers has found older-looking brains in adults with sickle cell disease, helping to explain the cognitive challenges experienced by such individuals.