Psychiatrist and Institute for Public Health Faculty Scholar, Eric Lenze, MD, recommends taking two different classes of antidepressants raises the chances that you will “get better from depression.”
Institute Faculty Scholar and head of psychiatry at WashU, Eric Lenze, MD, co-authored a JAMA Psychiatry editorial on older adults mental health concerns that may often be dismissed.
Eric Lenze, MD, head of the Department of Psychiatry, led a study that found for those older adults who don’t respond to standard treatments, augmenting their usual antidepressants with an add-on treatment is more effective than switching from one drug to another.
Eric Lenze, an Institute Faculty Scholar and co-author of a recent study in aging says he expected to see that exercise would help improve memory and thinking, but that was not the case.
Faculty Scholar Eric Lenze, MD, who also directs the Healthy Mind Lab, talks about TV programming that offers good info about longevity science.