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Fast-tracking psilocybin for refractory depression makes sense

We are now in a renaissance period where psychedelic drugs are being reestablished as a new approach to very important public health problems. With protocol-driven specific trials, they might become critical medications for a wide range of psychiatric disorders, such as depression, PTSD, anxiety, and addictions.

Medicine & Health

In transfusions for children, fresh and older blood are equally effective

An international study led by the School of Medicine and CHU Sainte-Justine hospital in Montreal has found no benefit in using fresh red blood cells that have been stored for up to seven days in blood transfusions for critically ill children, compared with using older red blood cells stored for nearly four weeks.

Neuroscience & Memory

Why doesn’t deep-brain stimulation work for everyone?

School of Medicine researchers have mapped nine functional networks in the deep-brain structures of 10 healthy people, an accomplishment that could lead to improvements in deep-brain stimulation therapy for severe cases of Parkinson’s disease and other neurological conditions.

Science & Technology

U.S. faces looming ‘future drought’ in helium

In a Dec. 10 briefing on Capitol Hill, chemist Sophia Hayes of Washington University in St. Louis and an expert on helium testified that steep price increases and “supply shocks” threaten basic research in academic settings. Shortages will also lead to broader health and industry applications, she said.

Vogel-Hammen receives award for research in child, adolescent psychiatry

Alecia Vogel-Hammen, MD, PhD, an instructor in child psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has received the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry’s 2019 Pilot Research Award for Attention Disorders.

Art & Design

Events: ‘Multiplied: Edition MAT and the Transformable Work of Art’

All events begin at 6 p.m. unless otherwise noted. Monday, February 24 Lecture, Reinhard Bek Conservator, Bek & Frohnert LLC “Unstable Futures: Conserving the Immaterial, 1960–Present” Thursday, March 5 Music at the Kemper: Darmstadt School Monday, March 23 Lecture, Natilee Harren Assistant professor of contemporary art history and critical studies, University of Houston “The Artwork in […]

Art & Design

About Daniel Spoerri

Artist, curator, poet, dancer and publisher Daniel Spoerri was born in 1930 in Galati, Romania. In 1941, after Romania allied itself with the Axis Powers, his father was arrested and later murdered in a Nazi death camp. In 1942, Spoerri’s mother fled with Daniel and his five siblings to her native Switzerland, resettling with an […]

Sustainability Leadership Awards nominations sought

The Office of Sustainability seeks nominations for outstanding people and projects that exemplify leadership in sustainability. Nominations are due Dec. 18.

Art & Design

‘Multiplied: Edition MAT and the Transformable Work of Art’

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Daniel Spoerri recruited dozens of leading artists to create and edition nearly 50 transformable, participatory artworks as multiples — a term Spoerri helped to coin. This spring, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum will present “Multiplied: Edition MAT and the Transformable Work of Art,” the first major U.S. exhibition to survey the entirety of Spoerri’s pioneering project.

Campus & Community

Obituary: B.A. ‘Dolph’ Bridgewater, emeritus trustee, 85

A memorial service and celebration of life honoring Bernard Adolphus “Dolph” Bridgewater Jr. will be held at 3 p.m. Dec. 14 in Washington University’s Graham Chapel. Bridgewater, an emeritus trustee of the university, died Oct. 31, 2019, surrounded by loved ones. He was 85.