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Refugee Mental Health: What You Need To Know

The percentage of children, adults, and older adults forced to leave their homes to avoid danger and death has steadily risen over the last several decades. While many are refugees—those forced to leave their home country—there are many more people who are internally displaced persons, or IDPs...

The Social Dilemma: Social Media and Your Mental Health

The social media platform Instagram made headlines last year for suppressing likes in an effort to curb the comparisons and hurt feelings associated with attaching popularity to sharing content. But do these efforts combat mental health issues, or are they simply applying a band-aid to a wound? It’s...

Everything You Need To Know About Depression

Feeling sadness is normal, especially when facing difficult circumstances or dealing with loss. Some of us even feel glum when it’s just a cloudy day. But for many people, this dark feeling can be intense and overwhelming. It can cause you to feel hopeless and helpless and can carry on for weeks...

The Pavilion: Providing Transformative Mental Health Care for 20 Years

More than 20 years ago, McLean Hospital launched a unique residential program focused on helping patients get a clearer picture of their mental health. This self-pay service, The Pavilion, continues to provide unparalleled diagnostic care today. When its doors were opened in November 1999, The...

Video: Elizabeth’s Journey to Recovery

Elizabeth struggled with her mental health until a friend suggested The Pavilion. Watch Elizabeth share her mental health story and how her time as a patient at The Pavilion helped her on her journey to recovery.

Video: Patient Story – Becca

Becca realized that getting help for her mood disorder was an important piece of achieving her goal of a college degree. McLean’s College Mental Health Program was beside her every step of the way. Watch Becca share her story of treatment and her ongoing journey of recovery.

A Bridge From Hospital to Home

The first 30 days following a period of psychiatric treatment can be treacherous. Patients have left the supportive, highly structured environment of the hospital, with its singular focus on recovery, to return to the same old stressors. They also have to navigate new stressors, such as explaining...

Video: McLean Hospital – A Leader in Mental Health

As a leader in the field, McLean Hospital is committed to offering world-class patient care, conducting cutting-edge research, and delivering exceptional education for mental health professionals and the general public.

Program Newsletters Educate Staff and Streamline Communication

Staff at the Alcohol, Drug, and Addiction Inpatient Program have noticed a significant drop in emails from Christopher A. Richard, BSN, RN, the nurse manager for the program. That’s because about a year and a half ago, Richard began publishing a two-page weekly newsletter chock full of timely...

Staff Profile: Lucas Trambaiolli, MSc, PhD

Lucas Trambaiolli, MSc, PhD, has a background in biomedical engineering and neuroscience. His doctoral work combined multimodal neuroimaging, real-time signal processing, and machine learning to identify functional connectivity patterns associated with emotion regulation. He targeted these patterns...

Staff Profile: Laura A. DiCola, MD, MSPH

Laura A. DiCola, MD, MSPH, is a staff psychiatrist at McLean OnTrack, a program for first episode psychosis, and the Clinical Evaluation Center. Dr. DiCola completed her medical degree at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and her psychiatry residency at the Massachusetts...

Staff Profile: Torsten Klengel, MD, PhD

Since 2018, Torsten Klengel, MD, PhD, has been the director of the Translational Molecular Genomics Laboratory at McLean Hospital, with a secondary affiliation at the University of Goettingen, Germany. In 2014, Dr. Klengel joined the Neurobiology of Fear Laboratory, led by Kerry J. Ressler, MD, PhD...

Staff Profile: Frank I. Tarazi, MBBS, PhD, MBA

Frank Tarazi, MBBS, PhD, MBA is an associate professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and director of the Laboratory in Pharmacoeconomics and Health Outcomes at McLean Hospital. He is a preclinical and clinical expert on Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, schizophrenia, depression...

Staff Profile: David H. Rosmarin, PhD, ABPP

David H. Rosmarin, PhD, is the director of the Spirituality and Mental Health Program at McLean Hospital and an associate professor of psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He received his PhD in clinical psychology from Bowling Green State University under the...

Staff Profile: Amy Gagliardi, MD

Amy Gagliardi, MD, is associate medical director of The Pavilion where she directs the evaluation and treatment of patients with complex psychiatric and neuropsychiatric disorders. Her clinical responsibilities include the coordination of multidisciplinary psychiatric evaluations, diagnostic...

Staff Profile: Mark Robart, LICSW

Mr. Robart began his career at McLean Hospital in 1977 while attending graduate school at Boston University. During his thirty five years at McLean, Mr. Robart has held significant leadership roles in both clinical and administrative positions. His work has focused on developing and implementing...