Psychotic Disorders Related Content

Since 1999, Alexander Vuckovic, MD, has been medical director of The Pavilion, where he has overseen the care of more than 2000 patients, in addition to thousands more in his outpatient practice. He has spent his entire 34-year post-residency career immersed in the diagnosis, clinical care, and...

J. Alexander Bodkin, MD, has been at McLean since 1985. Working with Dr. Jonathan Cole until his death, Dr. Bodkin has long pursued the study of new and old medications for depression and anxiety. His research has focused on underutilized pharmacologic approaches to difficult-to-treat mood and...

A career investigator of the NIMH from 1970 to 2001, Ross J. Baldessarini, MD, is an internationally known research psychopharmacologist with many contributions to the actions of antipsychotic and mood-altering medicines and has trained over 160 laboratory and clinical investigators. He joined...

Rakesh Karmacharya, MD, PhD, is working at the intersection of chemical biology and stem cell biology to investigate the cellular-molecular underpinnings of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, using patient-specific stem cells to generate human neuronal cultures. His current research aims to...

As director of the Laboratory for Computational Neuroscience, Dr. Siekmeier’s research centers on the computational modeling of the hippocampus, an area of brain thought to be responsible for encoding memories, and one that has been implicated in the etiology of schizophrenia. The goals of this...

Kathryn Eve Lewandowski, PhD, is the director of clinical programming at McLean OnTrack TM and an associate professor of psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She also directs the psychotic disorders rotation of the APA-approved pre-doctoral psychology internship...

Mei-Hua Hall, PhD, is the director of the Psychosis Neurobiology Laboratory. Her specific expertise is in electrophysiology, psychiatric genetics, and cognitive neuroscience and she also has a broad background in clinical psychology, epidemiology, and statistical modeling. She receives funding from...

Since 2008, Kirsten W. Bolton, LICSW, has been working with patients and their families in McLean’s Division of Psychotic Disorders. A graduate of Simmons College, Ms. Bolton began her work at McLean as a clinical social worker in the Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder Inpatient Program. Previously...

Karen Slifka, RN, MS, CS, is the nurse director of the Community Reintegration Unit. Ms. Slifka began her career at McLean in the child inpatient units and later moved into the child outpatient program in therapy, psychopharmacology, and research. She has been working in the Community Reintegration...

Sabina Berretta, MD, began her research training under the mentorship of Dr. V. Perciavalle at University of Catania, Italy. In 1990, she joined the laboratory directed by Dr. A. M. Graybiel in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT, working neural circuitry linking the motor cortex...

Dr. Carter attended Brown University, graduating magna cum laude with an BS in psychology in 1985. He received his MD from Harvard Medical School in 1989, before completing his residency in adult psychiatry at McLean Hospital in 1993. Staying on at McLean since residency, Dr. Carter has held...

Eliza W. Menninger, MD, is the medical director of the Behavioral Health Partial Hospital Program where she treat patients with various diagnoses, most frequently major depression, bipolar, schizophrenia, and schizoaffective. As a means of providing continuity of care, she also sees patients in the...

Joseph Stoklosa, MD, earned his medical degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and completed his psychiatry residency training at Massachusetts General Hospital/McLean Hospital. He serves as the clinical director of McLean’s Division of Psychotic Disorders. Previously, he served...

Andrew M. Stromberg, MD, is the medical director of the McLean-Franciscan Child and Adolescent Inpatient Program located at Franciscan Hospital for Children. He has been involved with the program since 1992. Dr. Stromberg works with the Massachusetts General Hospital/McLean Hospital Child and...

Paola Salvatore, MD, is an assistant professor of psychiatry at Parma University in Italy, and research associate in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Recently she also was promoted to associate professor of psychiatry by the Italian Ministry of Education. A Parma University magna cum laude...

Virginie-Anne Chouinard, MD, is a staff psychiatrist and director of research at McLean OnTrack TM , a program for first episode psychosis at McLean Hospital, and an instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Her clinical and research interests include early psychosis recovery and metabolic...

Michael Murphy, MD, PhD, is a staff psychiatrist with McLean OnTrack TM , a program for first episode psychosis, a research fellow at the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute, and an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Murphy’s research focus is...

W. Brad Ruzicka, MD, PhD, specializes in the clinical treatment and basic investigation of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Dr. Ruzicka provides direct patient care within multiple settings in the hospital’s Division of Psychotic Disorders. Dr. Ruzicka’s research is focused on the role of...

Hyun Jung Kim, MD, is a child and adolescent psychiatrist, specializing in early psychotic disorders and college student mental health. With a completion of her psychiatry residency at Duke University and a child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at Harvard Medical School/Boston Children’s...

At McLean, Joel Solomon, MD, works as a medical director on the Community Reintegration Unit, specializing in the treatment of patients with chronic and severe mental illness. Dr. Solomon leverages his training in pediatrics and psychiatry to lead a family-focused and team-based approach to...