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Dr. Ole Isacson is a professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School and founding director of the Neuroregeneration Research Institute at McLean Hospital. His work is focused on the understanding and treatments of neurodegenerative disease, with particular emphasis on distinguishing critical...

Brian P. Brennan, MD, MMSc, is an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and is the medical director of the Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Institute at McLean Hospital—an intensive residential treatment facility for patients with severe OCD and related disorders. He is also the...

Courtney Beard, PhD, is an associate professor of psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and director of the Cognition and Affect Research and Education (CARE) Laboratory at McLean Hospital. Dr. Beard’s research aims to delineate cognitive and affective mechanisms...

Dr. Kaufman is director of McLean Hospital’s Translational Imaging Laboratory, associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, co-director of the NIDA T32 post-doctoral training program at McLean, and a Partners Human Research Committee member. He conducts translational research in...

Jenna M. Traynor, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and clinician-scientist. She conducts research within McLean’s Division of Women’s Mental Health. Her research and clinical practice focus on treatment for borderline personality disorder (BPD), trauma-related disorders (e.g., post-traumatic stress...

Robyn A. Ellis, PhD, is a post-doctoral research fellow under the mentorship of R. Kathryn McHugh, PhD, in the Stress, Anxiety, and Substance Use Laboratory. Dr. Ellis’ graduate research focused on examining emotional mechanisms of post-traumatic stress symptoms and risk-taking behaviors. In 2022...

Benjamin C. Silverman, MD, is the senior IRB chair at Mass General Brigham. He is additionally director of ethics for the McLean Institute for Technology in Psychiatry, chair of the Mass General Brigham Embryonic Stem Cell Research Oversight (ESCRO) Committee, and at Harvard Medical School, he...

Alessandro S. De Nadai, PhD, is a translational data scientist who focuses on improving pediatric mental health outcomes. He and his team take new findings in computer science, mathematics, and statistics and translate them into clinically actionable information. He has applied new developments in...

Manuel Kuhn, PhD, is a post-doctoral research fellow in the Laboratory for Translational and Affective Neuroscience, directed by Diego A. Pizzagalli, PhD. Dr. Kuhn completed his doctoral degree at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany, where he examined the neurobiological...

Allen J. Bailey, PhD, is a clinical investigator in the Division of Alcohol, Drugs, and Addiction at McLean Hospital. His research aims to understand heterogeneity among individuals with substance use disorders (SUD) and to improve treatment outcomes in SUD populations. He is particularly interested...

Frank I. Tarazi, MBBS, PhD, EMBA, is a preclinical and clinical expert in the diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and Huntington’s disease, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression, and ADHD. He has published over 140 articles and reviews in highly cited...

Joshua C. Brown, MD, PhD, is a psychiatrist, neurologist, and neuroscientist. He is medical director of the Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Service and director of TMS research in the Division of Depression and Anxiety Disorders at McLean Hospital. Dr. Brown is also director of the Brain...

Laura Payne, PhD, is the director of the Clinical and Translational Pain Research Laboratory at McLean Hospital. Her research focuses on identifying neurobiological, behavioral, and psychological biomarkers related to pain, particularly menstrual pain in adolescents. Specifically, she is interested...