Eric Lenze MD

Physician, scientist, educator, head of Psychiatry at @WUSTLmed. Director of Healthy Mind Lab,

[Eric Lenze MD @EricLenze2]

@realJoshSiegel Congrats Drs Siegel, Nicol, Dosenbach, and others for this landmark study of psilocybin's mechanism of action in the human brain.

[Eric Lenze MD @EricLenze2]

Glad to publish a review of geroscience and mental health with Breno Diniz and colleagues in @AmJGeriPsych.

https://t.co/MA76246f8W

Mental disorders accelerate aging and lead to premature mortality and dementia. Now we have pathways for intervention.

[Eric Lenze MD @EricLenze2]

Our second COVID treatment study available to read.

Negative/failed study, but great example of a fully-remote trial.

https://t.co/JIe0EVIMbb

[Eric Lenze MD @EricLenze2]

Published the (negative) results of our second fluvoxamine study for COVID.
https://t.co/VhXgctbi4G

We couldn't replicate our initial 2020 JAMA paper - even while other researchers did. But I'm proud of the team for the study (doing a fully remote clinical trial during COVID!).

[Eric Lenze MD @EricLenze2]

Everyone is interested in psychedelics for mental illness - but how do they work? New study out of WashU psychiatry provides answers.

[Eric Lenze MD @EricLenze2]

@WashUDPS @PamelaWoodardp @MIRimaging Great news for our institution! Congratulations Pam!!!

[Eric Lenze MD @EricLenze2]

Great to see more evidence of fluvoxamine's efficacy for COVID-19

[Antibiotic Steward Bassam Ghanem 🅱️C🆔🅿️🌟 @ABsteward]

🔥 TOGETHER RCT 🔥
Treatment with oral fluvoxamine plus inhaled budesonide among high-risk outpatients with early COVID-19 reduced the incidence of severe disease requiring advanced care #IDTwitter
https://t.co/S91Ao0kBlD

[Eric Lenze MD @EricLenze2]

I'm excited to announce that #washu psychiatry has matched 14 EXCEPTIONAL people who will make a huge positive impact in mental health.
To each of you - it was great to meet you during the interviews, I look forward to seeing you again in June.

[Eric Lenze MD @EricLenze2]

Exciting #childpsychiatry talk at #washu by Dr Kirsten Gilbert. Too much control = risk for psychiatric disorders (anxiety, depression, eating disorders). Her treatment research should help!

[Eric Lenze MD @EricLenze2]

See NEJM today. Thanks colleagues, staff, and patients who made this happen.

[Eric Lenze MD @EricLenze2]

@boulware_dr Hope they will but even without FDA, academic clinical trials could move the field forward.

[Eric Lenze MD @EricLenze2]

Calling all clinical trialists! This request by #NCATS for #decentralizedtrials could be a game-changer for clinical medicine. I can't overstate how much better this could be for developing, testing, personalizing, and optimizing treatments.

[Eric Lenze MD @EricLenze2]

How to translate neuroscience advances into new treatments for depression, anxiety, psychosis? Adam Kepecs @KepecsLab uses novel circuitry-based phenotypes to translate from mouse to human. Great talk Adam!

[Eric Lenze MD @EricLenze2]

#Anxiety disorders in older adults are common, impairing, and treatable. That's the point of a new article by @paula_span in @nytimes: https://t.co/beBvmKoDu8
Thanks to US Preventive Services Task Force for advocating for research on this!

[Eric Lenze MD @EricLenze2]

Congratulations to Simone Bernstein, outstanding resident at @washu and Laughlin Fellow for the American College of Psychiatrists!

[Eric Lenze MD @EricLenze2]

Sometimes your medically hospitalized patient has demoralization, not depression! So don't start medication and contribute to polypharmacy!
That's the take-home from a great talk today at #washu psychiatry by outstanding resident Can Misel Kilciksiz MD.

[Eric Lenze MD @EricLenze2]

Great talk this week on #autism research by Natasha Marrus at #WashU psychiatry department. It develops early in life by multiple paths -- more research needed, larger sample size studies to understand this heterogeneity.

[Eric Lenze MD @EricLenze2]

@niallpboyce @JAMAPsych @TheLancetPsych We may gain an understanding why individuals with severe or persistent mental illness (schizophrenia, TRD) die decades younger than non-mentally ill individuals. Accelerated aging?

[Eric Lenze MD @EricLenze2]

Enjoyed talk at #washu psychiatry today -- the renowned Dr Joan Luby told us how to overcome the cycle of poverty and adversity in child development. #nobelprize committee, are you listening?

[Eric Lenze MD @EricLenze2]

Great article on mental health care: "...the company discovered a fundamental truth of the U.S. health system: Americans value mental health extremely highly until they have to pay for it."

[Roy Perlis @royperlis]

https://t.co/Y9DGqtQHpd