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Honoring Nathaniel G. Harnett, PhD, and Lauren A.M. Lebois, PhD, McLean Hospital – The Alfred Pope Award for Early Career Investigators Each year, McLean Hospital recognizes young researchers with the Alfred Pope Award for Early Career Investigators. The honor is named for one of the hospital’s most...

Presented by Bill Carlezon, PhD, McLean Hospital, and Christopher J. McDougle, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital – Crossroads in Psychiatry lecture In this talk, McDougle and Carlezon discuss past and present investigations into the causes of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). They present information...

Presented by Lisa A. Marsch, PhD, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth – Visiting Scholar Series Digital technology can help clinicians better assess, understand, and treat behavioral health disorders. Digital therapeutics are also a promising and vibrant area of scientific research and clinical...

Presented by Milissa L. Kaufman, MD, PhD, and Lauren A. M. Lebois, PhD, McLean Hospital – McLean Forum lecture McLean’s Milissa L. Kaufman, MD, PhD, and Lauren A. M. Lebois, PhD explore the symptoms, treatment approaches, and neurobiology associated with three common forms of trauma-related...

Presented by Ruth S. Shim, MD, MPH, University of California Davis School of Medicine – Visiting Scholar Series A 2018 Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) study reported that about 69% of Black adults and 67% of Latinx adults with any form of mental illness did not...

Tracey M. Guthrie, MD, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University – Visiting Scholar Series According to Guthrie, psychiatry has long perpetuated racism and continues to perpetuate racism. In this lecture, Guthrie describes psychiatrists and other mental health professionals as having an...

Janice LeBel, EdD, PhD, Massachusetts Department of Health – Visiting Scholar Series Restraint and seclusion are not safe procedures. They have a negative impact on psychiatric treatment. They are also used on certain groups—particularly racial groups—far more than others. These are some of the...

Ashley Davis, PhD, MSW, Boston University School of Social Work, Nicole M. Ivone, LCSW, Department of Defense, and Makieya Kamara, LCSW, Action for Boston Community Development, Inc., present the 2021 Golda Edinburg Lecture. The deaths of Brianna Taylor, Ahmaud Aubrey, and George Floyd. Recent...

Presented by Alisa Busch, MD, MS, McLean Hospital, 2021 Jack H. Mendelson Memorial Research Award honoree. A 2019 Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration report found that 7.7% of Americans had a substance use disorder. Nearly 4% had both a substance addiction and other mental...

Jack Turban, MD, MHS, Stanford University School of Medicine – Visiting Scholar Series Transgender and gender-diverse youth populations experience high rates of depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, substance use disorders, and other conditions. Suicide rates are also elevated in this group, driven...

Presented by Christian A. Webb, PhD, McLean Hospital – McLean Forum lecture Psychotherapies, including cognitive behavior therapy (CBT), have been shown to be effective at improving depressive symptoms in adolescents. However, the mechanisms through which depressed teens improve—and why many do not...

Presented by Jennifer E. Johnson, PhD, Michigan State University – The Joseph P. Powers Memorial Lecture The United States has one of the highest incarceration rates in the world. As a result, the U.S. criminal justice system has become one of the country’s largest mental health care systems, one...

Presented by Christine Tebaldi, PMHNP-BC, McLean Hospital – McLean Forum lecture Disasters of all types have become more common in the United States and across the globe, with no example more prominent than the current coronavirus pandemic. The broad impact on individuals, communities, and health...

Presented by Jonathan Shedler, PhD, University of California San Francisco – The Adam Corneel Major Teachers in Psychotherapy Lecture Evidence-based therapies—brief, manualized therapies, usually involving cognitive behavior therapy (CBT)—are widely promoted as the gold standard of care. Research...

Presented by Joseph P. Gone, PhD, Harvard University – Visiting Scholar Series Native American communities exhibit alarming disparities in mental health. Reports show epidemic levels of distress among American Indians, Alaskan Natives, and Indigenous people. Members of these communities also...

Presented by Suzanne N. Haber, PhD, and Jason Krompinger, PhD, McLean Hospital – Crossroads in Psychiatry lecture Deep brain stimulation is a promising therapeutic approach for patients with treatment-resistant obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). Moreover, when patients are encouraged to look at...

Presented by Margarita Alegria, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital – Visiting Scholars Series lecture Between 1994 and 2017, the number of immigrant children in the United States rose to almost 20 million. Today, roughly 14% of the population in this country is foreign born. According to some...

Presented by Penny Hallett, PhD, McLean Hospital – McLean Forum lecture Parkinson’s disease (PD), is characterized by tremor, bradykinesia (slowness of movement), rigidity, and postural instability. At the time of diagnosis, about 60% of the midbrain dopamine (mDA) neurons have already degenerated...