Peter Nagele, MD, an associate professor of anesthesiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has received the Ziskind-Somerfeld Research Award from the Society for Biological Psychiatry.
The award recognizes the most outstanding research article published during the past year in the journal Biological Psychiatry. Nagele’s award-winning paper detailed work investigating nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, as a treatment for severe depression in patients whose symptoms don’t respond to standard therapies.
Read more on the School of Medicine site.
Comments and respectful dialogue are encouraged, but content will be moderated. Please, no personal attacks, obscenity or profanity, selling of commercial products, or endorsements of political candidates or positions. We reserve the right to remove any inappropriate comments. We also cannot address individual medical concerns or provide medical advice in this forum.