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Myth Busting: Spreading the Truth About ECT

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) has been around since the late 1930s, and it has been clear from the beginning that it is an effective treatment for patients with certain types of mental illness, including severe depression , severe mania, and catatonia. Despite this potential to provide dramatic...

In the Media: Is Your Teen or Young Adult Child Depressed?

Dr. Caitlin M. Nevins offers tips for parents concerned about the mental health of their children.

In the Media: Ketamine Therapy Helped My Depression. I Wish It Were More Accessible.

Dr. Robert C. Meisner suggests realistic goals when starting ketamine treatment for depression.

In the Media: Depression as a Long COVID Symptom

Dr. Stephanie Collier on the relationship between depression and COVID infection.

Podcast: Depression, Addiction, and the Restaurant Industry

The restaurant and hospitality industries are high-paced and high-stress—and have some of the highest rates of mental illness in any field. Jenn talks to Food & Wine Magazine’s Kat Kinsman, MIDA Boston’s Douglass Williams, and McLean Hospital’s Ipsit Vahia, MD. Together they discuss mental health in...

Why ECT Is Becoming a Preferred Depression Treatment

Brian Neville had a good life. A one-time bodybuilder, he was 43, a successful businessman in the tanning industry, with a home in Massachusetts and a vacation condo in Florida. Then one morning in 2006 he woke up with the blues . It developed into a persistent darkness that just would not go away...

In the Media: Depression, Anxiety May Linger for Bedridden COVID Patients but Milder Infections Reduce Risk, Study Finds

Dr. Stephanie Collier discusses possible links between the COVID virus and depression and anxiety disorders.

In the Media: ‘I Miss Everything. I Miss Everybody’ – Depression Rates for Seniors Are Soaring Amid COVID-19

Dr. Ipsit Vahia cites an increase in the rates of depression and anxiety among older adults.

In the Media: The Mental Health Risks of Retiring

Dr. Brent P. Forester explores how leaving the workforce can trigger depression and other mental health issues in older adults.

ECT Treatment: A History of Helping Patients

Dr. Stephen Seiner, ECT expert, and Terry A. Bragg, MSLS, MA, McLean Hospital historian and archivist, share the history behind electroconvulsive therapy. Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is used to treat patients with certain types of mental illness, including severe depression , severe mania, and...

In the Media: People With Mental Health Disorders at Higher Risk for Severe COVID-19, Studies Show

“Those who carry mental health diagnoses have less access to care and often receive inadequate care leading to worse medical outcomes, worse quality of life, and worse life expectancy.” – Dr. Joseph Stoklosa

In the Media: How Depression Can Warp Your Memory—And How To Manage It

Drs. Daniel G. Dillon and Lydia Cho on the ways depression can impact memory.

In the Media: Woman’s Depression Cured by Targeted Electrical Brain Stimulation, a First, Pioneered by UCSF Researchers

Dr. Darin D. Dougherty and others discuss a new approach for using deep brain stimulation to treat severe depression.

In the Media: Tips for How To Explain Depression So Other People Understand

Dr. David H. Rosmarin offers advice on how to tell others that you are living with mental illness.

In the Media: Ketamine for Depression Could Help Relieve Some of the Mental Health Burden Caused by Pandemic, Experts Say

Dr. Robert C. Meisner on how mental health issues caused by the pandemic have led to an increased interest in ketamine treatment.

McLean Hospital and GrayMatters Health Awarded a BIRD Foundation Grant

GrayMatters Health , a digital therapeutics start-up company, announced that the BIRD Israel-U.S. Binational Industrial Research and Development Foundation awarded a grant to McLean Hospital and the company to develop a novel solution for the therapy of major depressive disorder (MDD) with anhedonia...

In the Media: McLean Hospital and GrayMatters Health Awarded a BIRD Foundation Grant to Develop a Digital Therapy for Major Depression Disorder With Anhedonia Symptoms

McLean Hospital was awarded a grant to help develop a new approach to treating depression.

Conte Center Grant Expands Studies of Brain Mechanisms Behind Depression and Anxiety

With a $15,973,571, five-year grant from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), investigators from McLean Hospital and four other institutions will further their studies into the brain mechanisms behind depression and anxiety. Under the title “Novel Treatment Targets for Affective Disorders...

Video: Depression, Addiction, and the Restaurant Industry

The restaurant and hospitality industries are high-paced and high-stress—and have some of the highest rates of mental illness in any field. For staff in these industries, it’s the nature of the job to look after everyone else and put themselves last. And for many, the intensity of the roles can lead...

Christian A. Webb, PhD, Receives Anne Marie Albano Award From ABCT

Christian A. Webb, PhD , received the 2021 Anne Marie Albano Early Career Award for Excellence in the Integration of Science and Practice from the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT). Webb, who is the director of McLean’s Treatment and Etiology of Depression in Youth (TEDY)...

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