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To tackle the growing mental health crisis facing children and adolescents and the difficulties families face accessing treatments for disorders such as anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), two McLean Hospital-affiliated clinicians have launched an innovative virtual treatment program...

Mounted on the wall in David’s room at an assisted living facility west of Boston is a small, white box. It emits a low hum, but otherwise, it is hard to know it is there. But, while people in the room may not notice the box, the box is noticing everything that goes on in the room. The box houses a...

Call it the great technology experiment of 2020-2021. In just days, McLean—along with most other mental health care providers—transitioned from delivering care almost entirely in person to treating a majority of patients via videoconferencing or phone. “We had been baby-stepping our way toward...

On October 1, Ipsit Vahia, MD , took on the newly created roles of associate chief of the Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and director of Digital Psychiatry Translation at McLean Hospital. Previously, Vahia had been medical director for both McLean’s Geriatric Psychiatry Outpatient Services and...

GrayMatters Health , a digital therapeutics start-up company, announced that the BIRD Israel-U.S. Binational Industrial Research and Development Foundation awarded a grant to McLean Hospital and the company to develop a novel solution for the therapy of major depressive disorder (MDD) with anhedonia...

In the chaotic early days of the pandemic, when federal and state regulators lifted a variety of legal barriers to telemedicine services, McLean Hospital programs raced to provide telemedicine to all levels of care Within two weeks, McLean pivoted to telemedicine, with 100% of outpatient and partial...

To kick off McLean’s Fall 2020 Nursing Conference, titled “The Digital Revolution in Behavioral Health During a Pandemic,” Michael Hasselberg, PhD, RN, presented a talk, “Telehealth and Informatics.” A wide-ranging look at the past, present, and future of telehealth and other technologies, the...

Laura Germine, PhD , thought that a chronic disease wouldn’t just affect her personal life. She also feared it would derail her career as a neuroscientist and researcher. Instead, her Type 1 diabetes diagnosis opened a new opportunity in which she would combine her skills as a software developer...

Since the dawn of psychiatry, clinicians have depended primarily on two things to diagnose and treat illness: what they can observe from face-to-face interactions with patients, and what patients choose to share of their own experiences. These are fairly crude tools compared to those of other...

In just a few short weeks in March, McLean transformed itself from a hospital that depends on face-to-face encounters and shoulder-to-shoulder group interactions to one that can deliver treatment via patients’ computer screens. “Pre-pandemic, I would estimate that less than 5% of our care involved...

Even with the best protocols in place, treating psychiatric patients who have tested positive for COVID-19 poses challenges for mental health care professionals. But what if there was a way to monitor patients from a safe distance? A team of clinicians from McLean Hospital’s Division of Geriatric...

McLean Hospital’s third annual Technology in Psychiatry Summit (TIPS) was the largest yet. The event drew some 300 researchers, clinicians, business leaders, and others from 11 countries. Held at Harvard Medical School’s Joseph B. Martin Conference Center in Boston from October 28 through 29, the...

Since Rachel Sava, PhD, joined McLean Hospital as the new program director of the McLean Institute for Technology in Psychiatry (ITP) in August, she has been busy planning the recent Technology in Psychiatry Summit and meeting with clinicians and researchers throughout the organization. She plans to...

Justin T. Baker Thinks It’s Time for Psychiatry to Adapt to a Changing Culture and a Younger Cohort of Patients Moving to a more data-driven practice poses a challenge in a health care system that is moving toward what is thought of as a more cost-effective model of providing the right care in the...

A recent McLean Hospital study finds that many clinicians are using their patients’ social and electronic media in therapy. The researchers used a web-based survey of outpatient psychotherapists associated with McLean Hospital. More than 60% of respondents said they had viewed at least one patient’s...

A recent study by McLean Hospital researchers revealed the broad popularity of smartphone apps to assist in mental health monitoring and treatment. The findings were presented in “Smartphone, Social Media, and Mental Health App Use in an Acute Transdiagnostic Psychiatric Sample.” The paper...

Today, students and their parents expect to have the latest technology,” said Suzanne Loughlin, APRN, BC , director of McLean Hospital’s Arlington School . “And in the past year, we’ve taken additional steps to bring the 21st-century classroom experience to the Arlington School.” With the help of a...

McLean Hospital researchers are set to commence work on a study that will leverage extensive digital data to evaluate, at the individual level, the biological, environmental, and social factors that trigger dangerous mental states, particularly mania and psychosis, in people with bipolar disorder...

Based on a study by McLean Hospital researchers, individuals with anxiety, depression , and other mental health conditions may soon be able to use a smartphone app to deliver on-demand cognitive bias modification for interpretation (CBM-I), a way to change mental habits without visiting a therapist...

Researchers from McLean Hospital and Yale University have published findings of their study of large-scale systems in the brain, findings that could improve understanding of the symptoms and causes of bipolar disorder, schizophrenia , depression , and other mental illnesses. Their paper, “...