A study led by WashU Medicine researchers finds that sensory distress is directly related to both autism and anxiety, but not ADHD. The research also identified distinct patterns of brain connectivity...

Findings from a mouse study by WashU Medicine researchers could lead to targeted treatments for chronic nerve pain.

Studying mice, WashU Medicine researchers have identified communication signals linking skeletal muscle, the brain and brown fat tissue that play an important role in aging. Interventions in older mic...

Sleep, screen time and stress — but not IQ — are also linked to children’s brain features.

Researchers at a Washington University in St. Louis lab have induced on-demand arrhythmia in a mouse model using light to better understand arrhythmia's effect on the brain.

Researchers in Bruce Carlson’s lab at Washington University in St. Louis study electric fish to understand the basics of brain sensory processing and prediction.

WashU biomedical engineers in Ismael Seáñez's lab are evaluating which strategies and treatments are the most effective for spinal cord injuries.

A cost-effective screening tool developed by WashU Medicine researchers allows for broader genomic testing for patients with peripheral neuropathy of unknown cause.

WashU Medicine researchers at the Bright Center for Human Vision have developed gene therapies that help retinal cells clear toxic proteins in mouse and human models of retinitis pigmentosa, an inheri...

A WashU Medicine-led clinical trial has found that a personalized vaccine to treat glioblastoma appears to increase recurrence-free survival in a subset of patients after surgery.

WashU Medicine researchers show that it is possible to accurately predict the state of brain activity by tracking variations in an animal’s pupil dilation, suggesting that brain circuits and the body ...

Yifan Dai and colleagues are reshaping our understanding of disease origins and revealing how these condensates can tip cells from normal behavior to dysfunction.

New functional photoacoustic microscopy tool developed at Washington University in St. Louis may advance understanding of cerebral small vessel disease.

New findings in mice shed light on the brain’s response to the keto diet, long known to help treat some patients with epilepsy.

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have a new model for understanding fruit fly courtship behavior, which can help for other sensory models in neuroscience research.

WashU's Ignite grant programs supports innovative, interdisciplinary research focused on public health

A study by researchers at WashU Medicine reveals how the body reprograms stable fat cells to eliminate stubborn fat reserves.

Participants with RVCL-S underwent eye imaging and brain MRI scans to see if changes in the retina reflect disease severity in the brain.

AI-occupational therapy team leverages novel vision-language models to detect cognitive errors

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis show that psychedelic compounds such as psilocybin appear to distort the link between blood flow and brain-cell functioning, which ...

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis find the timing of biopsy can affect how doctors diagnose tumors and when those cancers may be more sensitive to chemotherapy.

Meaghan Creed, an associate professor of anesthesiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has received a $3.3 million five-year grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse ...

Catherine E. Lang, a leading researcher in the field of stroke recovery and rehabilitation in the Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine Program in Physical Therapy, has been installed ...

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have developed a nano-sized medicine delivered through the nose that boosts the anti-cancer immune response and successfully elimin...

A group of researchers from Washington University in St. Louis has created a new kind of fiber-optic device to manipulate neural activity deep in the brain.

Ganesh Chand, PhD, received a four-year, $3.2 million NIH grant to study the neuropsychiatric mechanisms in AD.

Research in Alexandra Rutz’s lab creates hydrogels that could measure biological activity

With a grant from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, a multi-institutional research team led by scientists at Virginia Tech and Washington University in St. Louis will develop an indoor...

Using advanced biophysical and imaging techniques, Meredith Jackrel and her team have isolated Matrin-3 to better understand its role in neurodegenerative diseases.

ShiNung Ching, Ben Julian Palanca, MD, PhD, look at brain dynamics, neural circuits as clues to alternative approaches

Data scientists at Washington University in St. Louis used new statistical tools to find that the association between lead exposure and academic test scores may be even stronger than previously suspec...

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine have developed the first mouse model to replicate the disrupted sleep patterns seen in people with chronic pain.

Words are windows into the brain. The words that we choose — and how we say them — speak volumes about our personalities and even our mental health, said Josh Oltmanns, an assistant professor of psych...

A study in humans and mice from WashU Medicine could inform new treatments for leg dystonia, a common complication of cerebral palsy.

A WashU Medicine study paves the way to make an effective treatment more accessible to those 'paralyzed by life.'

Gurnett and Salkoff are lead authors on a case report on how Prozac can be used in the treatment of children with rare forms of epilepsy.

Hong Chen, a biomedical engineer at Washington University in St. Louis, shares the potential for using synthetic torpor technology to develop new treatments for a range of illnesses and injuries.

Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine researchers identify biomarkers of Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and frontotemporal dementia from blood plasma, suggesting new therapeutic avenues.

Edmond J. Safra Fellowship to fund training of movement disorder specialist in the Department of Neurology

A new paper is challenging longstanding misconceptions about multiple sclerosis, a common autoimmune disease that affects roughly one million people in the United States. “For many years, MS was seen ...

Morby prize from Cure Alzheimer’s Fund honors groundbreaking Alzheimer’s research

An interdisciplinary research team at Washington University in St. Louis has found that variability in sleep patterns in people experiencing pregnancy can effectively predict preterm birth.

In a new paper with implications for preventing Alzheimer’s disease and other neurological disorders, Keith Hengen, an associate professor of biology, suggests a new comprehensive approach to understa...

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis received a $12 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to deepen understanding of autism and other neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders that are caused by a single gene mutation.

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital have found that biomolecular condensates play a role in suppressing the effects of ALS-causing mutations.

Resh Gupta If you’re anxious about work, finances, the state of the world, or anything else, you might try a moment of mindfulness. Paying close attention to the present moment without judgment — the ...