Translational Research Related Content

Video: Lecture – A Translational Perspective on Intergenerational Trauma

Presented by Torsten Klengel, MD, PhD , McLean Hospital – McLean Forum lecture A broad body of literature suggests that exposure to traumatic events in preceding generations can influence the risk of their offspring developing psychiatric disorders. Also, recent molecular studies show that the...

Philanthropy Bolsters Research Into Teen Depression

How do you predict which teenagers will develop clinical depression ? Can you use brain activity, mood or behavior patterns, and other information? Are there targeted prevention strategies that could stop a vulnerable young person from plunging into depression? And for teenagers who are currently...

McLean Study Finds Marijuana Use Impacts Driving Even When Sober

A study by McLean Hospital’s Mary Kathryn Dahlgren, PhD , Staci Gruber, PhD , and their team from McLean’s Cognitive and Clinical Neuroimaging Core and the Marijuana Investigations for Neuroscientific Discovery (MIND) program, has found that recreational cannabis use affects driving ability even...

Video: Engagement in Intensive Longitudinal Data Collection (TIPS 2019)

Inbal (Billie) Nahum-Shani, MA, PhD, University of Michigan, and Donna Spruijt-Metz, MFA, PhD, University of Southern California, speak on engagement in intensive longitudinal data collection. These remarks were part of the 2019 Technology in Psychiatry Summit, an event sponsored by the McLean...

Video: Assessing Health and Behavior Over Time (TIPS 2019)

Dana Wolff-Hughes, PhD, National Institutes of Health, presents on longitudinal assessment of health and behavior. Introduced by McLean’s Justin T. Baker, MD, PhD . These remarks were part of the 2019 Technology in Psychiatry Summit, an event sponsored by the McLean Institute for Technology in...

Identifying the Roots of PTSD

Survival. In an animal kingdom enriched by a diversity of species, it is the one trait shared by organisms as simple as worms and as complex as humans. And the proof is in a protein with the hopelessly complex name of pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide. Commonly referred to by...

PTSD: More Than Trauma

Studying stress-related factors in animals is an important first step in understanding what ails us and how to fix it. But that research only goes so far, particularly when these factors also confer risk for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in human beings. As part of a 5-year, $13.5 million...

Discovery @ McLean Hospital 2019

Read the latest on the breakthroughs that McLean’s researchers are making in identifying the roots of PTSD. Identifying the Roots of PTSD Survival. In an animal kingdom enriched by a diversity of species, it is the one trait shared by organisms as simple as worms and as complex as humans. And the...

Deborah L. Levy, PhD, to Receive 2019 Valiant Researcher Award

The Schizophrenia and Related Disorders Alliance of America (SARDAA) will present Deborah L. Levy, PhD , director of the Psychology Research Laboratory at McLean Hospital, with its 2019 Valiant Researcher Award. Established in 2018, the Valiant Researcher award recognizes an individual “who has...