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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...

Strategies for Health Care Workers to Cope With Daily, Ongoing Stress

The COVID-19 pandemic is raising stress levels for everyone, but perhaps no group has been hit harder than health care workers. And while many people are trying to support our nurses, doctors, and first responders with thank you signs and food donations, the pressures facing health care workers...

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...

Webinar: How To Support Someone With Depression

Join us as Christopher M. Palmer, MD , explains ways to identify depression in ourselves and others, shares tips to support people we care for who are experiencing the mood disorder, and answers audience questions about depressive disorders and the stigma surrounding them.