Stress Related Content

The Silent Strain at the Top: Mental Health Among Executive Leadership

Executive leadership often conjures images of success—corner offices, global influence, and the power to shape industries. But behind the glossy titles and impressive resumes, many leaders quietly struggle with the crushing weight of responsibility. The reality? Executive burnout, chronic stress...

Is There a Connection Between Early Life Stress and COVID-19?

Can early life stress contribute to how COVID-19 affects a patient? That’s a question being asked by a McLean Hospital researcher in a national mental health study of college students in his native Pakistan that will be conducted over the next two years. The project is one of two undertaken by...

McLean Hospital Joins Partnership to Research Generational Trauma

McLean Hospital has partnered with the nonprofit arm of The Connor Group, a real estate investment firm, as well as the University of Dayton and Dayton Children’s Hospital, on a groundbreaking research project aimed at understanding the biological link between childhood hardships and mental...

New Study Uncovers Details Behind the Body’s Response to Stress

The biological mechanisms behind stress-related psychiatric conditions, including major depressive disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), are poorly understood. New research now details the interplay between proteins involved in controlling the body’s stress response and points to...

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...

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...

Staff Profile: Jakob Hartmann, PhD

Jakob Hartmann, PhD, is director of the Neurobehavioral Stress Resilience Laboratory at McLean and is an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Hartmann is the recipient of several honors and fellowships, including a research scholarship from the German Research Foundation...

Staff Profile: Nikolaos P. Daskalakis, MD, PhD

Nikolaos P. Daskalakis, MD, PhD, is the director of the Neurogenomics and Translational Bioinformatics Laboratory, part of the Advanced Bioinformatics and Computational Discovery Hub, at McLean Hospital and an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He is also an affiliate...

Staff Profile: Allison R. Foilb, PhD

Allison R. Foilb, PhD, focuses her research at the intersection of stress and learning. She began her research while an undergraduate at Barnard College where she studied the development of the hormonal stress response. As a graduate student at Boston College, Dr. Foilb studied the neural mechanisms...

Staff Profile: Josephine C. McGowan, PhD

Josephine C. McGowan, PhD, investigates the molecular mechanisms of resilience to stress. She began her research while an undergraduate at Barnard College in Dr. Christine Ann Denny’s laboratory, where she continued working as a graduate student at Columbia University. Dr. McGowan studied the...

Staff Profile: Martin Teicher, MD, PhD

Martin Teicher, MD, PhD, has been director of the Developmental Biopsychiatry Research Program at McLean Hospital since 1988. He was chief of the former Developmental Psychopharmacology Laboratory (now the Laboratory of Developmental Neuropharmacology) and is currently an associate professor of...

Staff Profile: Kerry J. Ressler, MD, PhD

Kerry J. Ressler, MD, PhD, is chief scientific officer and James and Patricia Poitras Chair in Psychiatry at McLean Hospital. He is also a professor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and past-president of the Society for Biological Psychiatry. Dr. Ressler was previously an investigator of the...