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Brain Food: What You Eat Impacts Your Mental Health

Diet has a direct impact on how well our bodies function, from digestion and sleep to feeling tired or having the ability to focus. There have been plenty of fad diets over the decades as well as popular ones that get a lot of fanfare. Some have been shown to work, while others are simply marketing...

Yes, There Is a Big Difference Between Mental Health and Mental Illness

Mental health and mental illness are not the same thing. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), mental illness refers to “conditions that affect a person’s thinking, feeling, mood, or behavior.” These can include but aren’t limited to depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, or...

How To Deal With Stress Caused by Working From Home

Routine and structure. For many people, these are two major keys to success in the professional world. Consistent schedules and deadlines, regular rules, and clear organization keep work on track and make coworkers, customers, and bosses happy. These days, work-from-home arrangements—made more...

McLean Addictions Conference Draws International Crowd

More than 400 clinicians from around the world converged on Cambridge, Massachusetts in early May for the McLean Hospital Addictions 2016 conference. Those in attendance included addiction specialists, mental health professionals, and practitioners representing family and internal medicine...

Psychiatrists Without Borders: Collaborating Across Cultures

Language barriers and cultural differences had little effect as McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School scientists and their colleagues from the Chinese Society of Psychiatry convened in early October to launch the first conference of the McLean Hospital-Chinese Society of Psychiatry Initiative in...

Continuing Education Grows Exponentially, Breaking New Ground

Under the leadership of Christopher M. Palmer, MD , Continuing Education at McLean has grown exponentially and broken new ground with its innovative multidisciplinary curriculum. Palmer took the reins of the Department of Postgraduate and Continuing Education in 2000, the year after completing his...