WBUR’s Carey Goldberg Introduces Panel on Reinventing the Psychiatric Laboratory (TIPS 2017)

Technological and social advancements are changing the way science is conducted. Methods for remote data collection, collaboration, and data sharing have led to new approaches to mental health research that transcend geographical and institutional boundaries. In this session, speakers discuss how we might conceptualize a laboratory of the future to lead us to a better understanding of mental health, the brain, and behavior.

This panel discussion was part of the 2017 Technology in Psychiatry Summit, sponsored by the McLean Institute for Technology in Psychiatry on November 6-7, 2017, at the JB Martin Conference Center, Harvard Medical School. Part of panel: Reinventing the Psychiatric Laboratory.

Carey Goldberg covers health and science, and is the host of WBUR’s CommonHealth blog. She has been the Boston bureau chief of The New York Times, a Moscow staff correspondent for The Los Angeles Times, and a health/science reporter for The Boston Globe. She was a Knight Science journalism fellow at MIT, graduated summa cum laude from Yale, and did graduate work at Harvard. She is co-author of the triple memoir “Three Wishes: A True Story Of Good Friends, Crushing Heartbreak and Astonishing Luck On Our Way To Love and Motherhood.”

Please visit mclean.org/itp to learn more about the McLean Institute for Technology in Psychiatry.