Content Related to PTSD / Trauma

ISSTD Honors McLean Researchers and Colleagues With the Pierre Janet Award

A team of research collaborators at McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital/Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging received the Pierre Janet Award from the International Society of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD). This award is given to honor the best clinical...

Sherry R. Winternitz, MD, Receives the 2021 Cornelia B. Wilber Award

Sherry R. Winternitz, MD, has received the 2021 Cornelia B. Wilbur Award from the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation in honor of her outstanding clinical contributions to the treatment of dissociative disorders. Story Highlights Winternitz has served as clinical director...

Video: Lecture – The Alfred Pope Award for Early Career Investigators 2021

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...

Advancing Trauma-Informed Systems Change Through Education and Research

McLean Hospital is collaborating with national and international experts to provide training aimed at fostering trauma-informed systems change. Led by Alisha Moreland-Capuia, MD, founder and director of McLean’s Institute for Trauma-Informed Systems Change, this team of educators is offering two-day...

Video: Lecture – Brain Science and Treatment Course of Trauma-Related Disorders

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...

Video: Lecture – Trauma-Informed Care With Refugee and Immigrant Youth

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...

Video: Lecture – Impact of Racial Discrimination and Trauma on Racial Health Disparities in African American Populations

Presented by Sierra E. Carter, PhD, Georgia State University – Visiting Scholar Series Research has demonstrated that racial discrimination is a significant factor in health disparities. In this talk, Carter cites findings that at least 90% of Black adults and youth report experiencing at least one...

McLean Sponsors Maine Art Exhibit Focused on Domestic Abuse

McLean Hospital has joined dozens of businesses and organizations in sponsoring an art exhibit in Rockland, Maine, focused on the issue of domestic abuse. The event was created by Finding Our Voices, a nonprofit organization that seeks to “educate everyone about the pervasiveness and complexity of...

Novel Neuroimaging Study on Dissociative Symptoms Reveals Wounds of Childhood Trauma

Being traumatized can cause what are known as dissociative symptoms—such as experiencing amnesia, an out-of-body experience, feeling emotionally numb—which may help people cope. Experiencing these symptoms intensely or for a long time, however, can negatively impact an individual’s ability to...

Bank of America Gift Will Help Transform the Lives of Justice-Involved Youth

In some urban areas, the incidence of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among young people rivals that of the military. Add to this the fact that a sizable percentage of people incarcerated in American prisons have untreated mental illness. With this in mind, McLean is bringing its expertise in...

Expression of Certain Genes May Affect Vulnerability to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Results from a new study suggest that whether certain genes are expressed—turned on or off—may play a role in susceptibility to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The study, which was conducted by an international team led by investigators at McLean Hospital and appears in the journal Cell...

Equine-Facilitated Psychotherapy: Facing Trauma With a Horse by Their Side

In the spring of 2019, four women with trauma histories visited a small farm in Lexington, Massachusetts, to try a new type of therapy. These sessions turned out to be quite a change of pace from typical group therapy—but not just because they involved horses. Equine-facilitated psychotherapy (EFP)...

Identifying the Roots of PTSD

Survival. In an animal kingdom enriched by a diversity of species, it is the one trait shared by organisms as simple as worms and as complex as humans. And the proof is in a protein with the hopelessly complex name of pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide. Commonly referred to by...

Two Researchers Brought Together by One Goal: Identifying Treatment of Anxiety and PTSD

Fight or flight. It’s a basic response to a perceived threat in all animals, from the fly to the human. In complex vertebrates, including mammals, it is controlled by an almond-shaped cluster of neurons in the brain called the amygdala. This cluster regulates both pleasure and fear. Scientists have...

Using Modern Molecular Research to Better Understand PTSD

The brain—it only weighs three pounds, and 73% of it is water. But the remaining 27% is a dynamic computing machine that contains an estimated 100 billion neurons and has the capacity to generate 23 watts of power across synapses while awake. That system of neural connections is what separates...

Conte Center Grant Provides Opening to Understanding the Role of Sleep in PTSD

To sleep, perchance to dream. Except when those dreams turn into nightmares replaying a traumatic event from the past. That’s why the study of sleep and circadian rhythm disruption is a central element of the 5-year, $13.5 million research effort at McLean Hospital that hopes to better understand...

PTSD: More Than Trauma

Studying stress-related factors in animals is an important first step in understanding what ails us and how to fix it. But that research only goes so far, particularly when these factors also confer risk for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in human beings. As part of a 5-year, $13.5 million...

Discovery @ McLean Hospital 2019

Read the latest on the breakthroughs that McLean’s researchers are making in identifying the roots of PTSD. Identifying the Roots of PTSD Survival. In an animal kingdom enriched by a diversity of species, it is the one trait shared by organisms as simple as worms and as complex as humans. And the...

Julia’s Fund: Bringing Big Data to Psychiatry

Harry Kasparian has spent more than 35 years as a leader in the technology field. An engineer and businessman who founded a successful data analytics company, Kasparian understands the value of science, data, and research. Fueled by the grief of losing his beloved daughter, Julia, in 2016, Kasparian...

Advancing the Understanding of PTSD

Perhaps one of the most misused words in modern society, “trauma” is used in daily language to describe all sorts of unpleasant or uncomfortable situations. But for 5-10% of the population, trauma and the accompanying post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a very precise condition with very real...

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