Medicine & Health

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.

Washington University researchers plan to use advanced math to better understand and control biological systems, specifically our body’s internal clock, possibly leading to better treatments for sleep-related issues.

Researchers at WashU Medicine have received $7.5 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to investigate a form of dementia caused by cerebral small vessel disease, the second-leading cause of dementia after Alzheimer’s.

In recognition of a $50 million gift from Andrew and Barbara Taylor, the neurosurgery department at WashU Medicine has been named the Taylor Family Department of Neurosurgery.