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Tag: Eric Lenze

Trump would be the oldest person to become president. He’s not sharing health details (Links to an external site)

October 16, 2024October 17, 2024

Eric Lenze, MD, professor of psychiatry, director of the Division of Geriatric Psychiatry, and Public Health Faculty Scholar, weighs in on Donald Trump’s refusal to share new details about his physical and mental well-being.

The next era of neuroscience research (Links to an external site)

April 15, 2024April 17, 2024

Eric Lenze, MD, professor of psychiatry, and Public Health Faculty Scholar, participated in the ribbon cutting and dedication of the new Jeffrey T. Fort Neuroscience Research Building at WUSM.

How to Tell When It’s Time to Start an Antidepressant (Links to an external site)

March 19, 2024March 20, 2024

Eric Lenze, MD, professor of psychiatry, director of the Healthy Mind Lab and Public Health Faculty Scholar, was recently quoted in a SELF article about start an antidepressant and how “dose increases and medication changes are often necessary to get well.”

Washington University researchers test antidepressant for treating long COVID (Links to an external site)

March 18, 2024March 20, 2024

Eric Lenze, MD, professor of psychiatry, director of the Healthy Mind Lab and Public Health Faculty Scholar, is co-leading a clinical trial using the antidepressant fluvoxamine to treat the brain fog in long COVID.

Verbal gaffe or sign of trouble? Mixing up names like Biden and Trump have done is pretty common (Links to an external site)

February 10, 2024February 13, 2024

Can verbal slips, like what President Biden occasionally experiences, reveal cognitive disorders? Eric Lenze, MD, Head of the Department of Psychiatry at the School of Medicine, and Public Health Faculty Scholar explains.

Patients needed for Washington University’s long COVID-19 treatment study (Links to an external site)

November 3, 2023November 9, 2023

Head of WashU Psychiatry, Dr. Eric Lenze says long COVID patients may have manifestations in the brain because of a depletion of serotonin. He’s conducting a 12-week trial to see if an antidepressant helps long COVID patients show improvement.

Treatment Resistant Depression (Links to an external site)

July 5, 2023July 7, 2023

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.”

Older people with anxiety frequently don’t get help. Here’s why (Links to an external site)

March 6, 2023March 7, 2023

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.

Adding antipsychotic med to antidepressant may help older adults with treatment-resistant depression (Links to an external site)

March 3, 2023March 6, 2023

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.

Exercise didn’t help brain function in older people, surprising study results show (Links to an external site)

December 15, 2022December 20, 2022

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.

On Chris Hemsworth’s 250 yard artic swim: Can extreme feats really boost longevity? (Links to an external site)

November 23, 2022November 29, 2022

Faculty Scholar Eric Lenze, MD, who also directs the Healthy Mind Lab, talks about TV programming that offers good info about longevity science.

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