McLean Hospital, the largest psychiatric affiliate of Harvard Medical School, has been named America’s top freestanding psychiatric hospital for the 22nd consecutive year, according to the U.S. News & World Report annual “best...
McLean Hospital, the largest psychiatric affiliate of Harvard Medical School and a member of Partners HealthCare, has signed a five-year contract with the National Rehabilitation Center (NRC) in Abu Dhabi to provide consultation services that will...
With an historic charter renewal ceremony held at the State House on Friday, February 25, McLean Hospital, the first psychiatric hospital in New England and the third oldest in the country, celebrated its 200th birthday and reaffirmed its mission to...
Psychiatric residencies should include training in pain medicine, since pain problems are extremely common in mental health patients, according to a paper by researchers at Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital who point out that chronic pain is a...
Researchers at Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital and the University of Utah have developed the best biologically-based test for autism to date. The test was able to detect the disorder in individuals with high-functioning autism with 94 percent...
Researchers at Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital have shown that those who start using marijuana at a young age are more impaired on tests of cognitive function than those who start smoking at a later age. In a paper that will be presented on...
McLean Hospital’s newly established Center for Depression, Anxiety and Stress Research will host an inaugural event on Friday, Oct. 1 from 1:15pm to 3:30pm in Pierce Hall, located on McLean’s Belmont campus. The event, which is free and...
Researchers at Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital have been awarded a $1.9 million National Institutes of Health Director’s Opportunity Award to continue their research into creating human induced pluripotent (iPS) stem cells using a method...
Doctors who treat people with obsessive compulsive disorder, family members of people with OCD, and those who suffer from OCD will engage in a night of true storytelling as a way to recognize OCD Awareness Week. Presented by the International OCD...
McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School will host the nation’s only academic-based coaching conference this fall, announced Christopher M. Palmer, MD, director for the McLean Hospital Department of Postgraduate and Continuing Education....
Paul J. Barreira, MD, and Martin P. Kafka, MD, were each honored for their significant career accomplishments and contributions to field of psychiatry at the American Psychiatric Association (APA) annual meeting in New Orleans during the Convocation...
McLean Hospital, the largest psychiatric affiliate of Harvard Medical School, will present award-winning actress and mental health advocate Glenn Close, her sister Jessie Close and her nephew Calen Pick with the hospital’s highest honor, the...
Long-term anabolic steroid use may weaken the heart more than previously thought and may increase the risk of heart failure, according to research reported in Circulation: Heart Failure, an American Heart Association journal. Anabolic-androgenic...
A long-term follow-up study of 290 hospitalized patients with borderline personality disorder—characterized by unstable interpersonal relationships, chronic unhappiness, frequent changes in mood, cognitive distortions, and marked impulsivity...
McLean Hospital’s Karen Slifka, RN, MS, CS, of Newton, was recently presented with the Patriot Award by the Employer Support for the Guard and Reserve (ESGR), a leading advocate within the Department of Defense. The award recognizes Slifka for...
A family of molecules surrounding brain cells may play a critical role in the pathology of schizophrenia, according to findings being reported by researchers at Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital. The findings may one day lead to improved diagnosis...
Facebook and other social networking websites are posing new ethical issues for doctor-patient relationships, according to researchers from Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital. Do patients’ “friending”—the act of initiating an...
Franciscan Hospital for Children will unveil a new wing of the existing Child & Adolescent Inpatient Mental Health program on Tuesday, March 9. The program is a joint venture which combines the expertise of Franciscan Hospital for Children and...
