A new pilot study led by Ipsit Vahia, MD, medical director of Geriatric Psychiatry Outpatient Services at McLean Hospital, suggests that the use of tablet computers is both a safe and a potentially effective approach to managing agitation among...
More research is needed to address the critical health problems associated with the use of anabolic-androgenic steroids among American men, according to Harrison G. Pope, MD, MPH, writing in a new opinion paper published in the Journal of the...
They are musicians and librarians, fashion designers and fitness instructors, actors, athletes and artists. They are sisters and wives, brothers and fathers, from New England and around the nation. What do they have in common? All have been affected...
Early this morning, McLean Hospital’s Codman Building, which was not currently being used, caught fire, resulting in significant damage to the building. Thanks to the Belmont Fire Department’s rapid response, the fire was contained to...
Preliminary evidence from a new study led by McLean Hospital’s Staci Gruber, PhD, director of the Marijuana Investigations for Neuroscientific Discovery (MIND) program, suggests that medical marijuana may not impair, and in many cases, may...
In an unprecedented move, McLean Hospital, the largest psychiatric affiliate of Harvard Medical School, and Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science, a world leader in brain research, are launching an alliance that will lead to further...
Kimberlyn Leary, incoming executive director of policy outreach at McLean Hospital will serve as an evaluating judge for a new competition that will award a $100 million grant to a single proposal designed to help solve a critical problem affecting...
McLean Hospital, the largest psychiatric affiliate of Harvard Medical School, has been named America’s top freestanding psychiatric hospital by U.S. News & World Report for the 14th consecutive year, according to the magazine’s...
McLean Hospital, the largest psychiatric affiliate of Harvard Medical School, recently announced the launch of the Institute for Technology in Psychiatry (ITP), which will harness the enthusiasm for technologies such as smartphones, wearable devices...
Scott L. Rauch, MD, president and psychiatrist in chief for McLean Hospital, was recently awarded the Daniel Drake Medal by the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine—the college’s highest honor. According to William S. Ball, MD,...
Results of the first study of its kind to link abnormalities in circadian rhythms to changes in specific neurotransmitters in people with bipolar disorder will be published this week in the journal Biological Psychiatry. The three-year study...
McLean Hospital, the largest psychiatric affiliate of Harvard Medical School, and emerging health tech startup Valera Health are partnering to conduct a clinical trial that will test a new digital technology to support patients with schizophrenia...
Earlier this month, McLean Hospital researchers became the first to identify defined populations of neurons that are absolutely critical for the anxiety-reducing action of the widely used medication Valium®. This finding may have implications...
Cohen Veterans Bioscience today announced two new collaborative partnership efforts that will provide critical research tools for understanding the underlying neurobiology and genetics of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traumatic brain...
According to the World Health Organization, globally, an estimated 350 million people of all ages suffer from depression. Now, thanks to a new brain imaging study conducted at McLean Hospital, the largest psychiatric affiliate of Harvard Medical...
Individuals with schizophrenia, a psychiatric illness that affects approximately 51 million people worldwide, often have difficulty reading facial emotions, leading to impaired social development. In a new study conducted by McLean Hospital,...
McLean Hospital and the EDI Institute have announced a strategic partnership to further ascertain the clinical effectiveness and impact of Expressive Digital Imagery® (EDI) in clinical settings across psychiatric conditions, levels of care, and...
A new study conducted by researchers at McLean Hospital indicates nearly 60 percent of patients have significant interest in integrating spirituality and religion into their mental health care. According to the study, published October 1 in the...
For those who live with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), the sense of smell could one day play a prominent role in treatment, according to researchers at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts, who co-authored a paper published this week in...
Brent P. Forester, MD, MSc, who was recently featured on the television program Chronicle discussing depression, has been named Chief of the McLean Hospital Division of the Geriatric Psychiatry. Dr. Forester will continue to serve as the director of...
