McLean Hospital announced today that it is notifying individuals related to a privacy incident involving information maintained as part of a research program. This incident did not involve any patient information from McLean’s medical records...
More than 1,500 advocates and mental health experts are expected to attend the 22nd Annual OCD Conference beginning Friday, July 31 through Sunday, August 2 at the Westin Boston Waterfront Hotel in the Seaport District. Hosted by the International...
Kwang-Soo Kim, PhD, director of McLean Hospital’s Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory and professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, along with collaborative teams from Brandeis University and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in...
McLean Hospital, the largest psychiatric affiliate of Harvard Medical School, announced today that Kerry J. Ressler, MD, PhD, will assume the roles of Chief Scientific Officer and Chief of the Depression and Anxiety Disorders Division, effective...
Results of the first systematic brain imaging study conducted on long-term users of anabolic-androgenic steroids reveal significant brain structural and functional abnormalities, according to doctors at McLean Hospital. An article detailing their...
McLean Hospital, the largest psychiatric affiliate of Harvard Medical School, has added a new program to its McLean SouthEast campus in Middleborough. The McLean Child Adolescent OCD Institute, which opened last month, is the second of its kind in...
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)—a highly effective intervention for chronic depression, mania, and schizophrenia—and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)—used for severe depression—are increasingly becoming viable options...
Shelly Greenfield, MD, MPH, McLean Hospital's Chief Academic Officer, will be among several Harvard Medical School (HMS) faculty members to be presented with the A. Clifford Barger Excellence in Mentoring Award on Tuesday, April 14, at 4 pm, in the...
McLean Hospital, the largest psychiatric affiliate of Harvard Medical School, has officially opened the doors of Borden Cottage, a residential substance abuse treatment program, in Camden Maine. This endeavor is the hospital’s first outside of...
A patient's level of motivation and preparedness to change significantly impacts the outcome of treatment, a study conducted at McLean Hospital's Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Institute (OCDI) has found. Data from 424 patients who underwent...
Panic disorder is a severe form of anxiety in which the affected individual feels an abrupt onset of fear, often accompanied by profound physical symptoms of discomfort. Scientists have known from studying twins that genes contribute to the risk of...
For longtime donors and McLean National Council members Pat and Jim Poitras, supporting new discoveries in psychiatry has been a common thread in their philanthropy. That is why they have, for many years, invested in research at McLean Hospital....
McLean Hospital recently received a $2 million gift from an anonymous family that will have far-reaching impact on the field of trauma disorders and, in particular, a special influence on women’s mental health. $1.5 million of the gift has...
McLean Hospital and Harvard Stem Cell Institute scientists have new evidence that stem cell transplantation could be a worthwhile strategy to help epileptics who do not respond to anti-seizure drugs. As reported in Cell Stem Cell, the laboratory of...
Thanks to a $500,000 gift from international best-selling author and mental health advocate Patricia Cornwell, McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School researchers will launch a landmark new program that will more fully explore the potential...
McLean Hospital researchers are reporting that xenon gas, used in humans for anesthesia and diagnostic imaging, has the potential to be a treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other memory-related disorders. “In our study,...
Individuals with major depressive disorder or bipolar disorder who receive low-field magnetic stimulation (LFMS) show immediate and substantial mood improvement, report McLean Hospital researchers in the August 1 issue of Biological Psychiatry....
Although it seems too soon to start planning for September, McLean Hospital’s Marketing and Continuing Education Departments are already hard at work organizing conferences and events for the coming fall. Each year, members of the McLean...
McLean Hospital has been ranked fourth overall in the nation in psychiatry by U.S. News & World Report for 2014-2015, making McLean the number one freestanding psychiatric hospital in the country—a distinction it has held for more than 20...
The University of Cincinnati College of Medicine recently awarded the John Shaw Billings, MD, Alumni Leadership Award to Scott L. Rauch, MD, president and psychiatrist in chief of McLean Hospital. The Billings Award is given annually to recognize an...
