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14 unusual facts about McLean Hospital


Alex Beam

Gracefully Insane: Life and Death Inside America's Premier Mental Hospital, which explored the history of McLean Hospital, was published in January 2002.

Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging

It is also a Harvard Catalyst site, and incorporates research projects from Boston University, McLean Hospital, and other Boston institutions.

Brandon Marshall

In a South Florida Sun-Sentinel article published on July 30, 2011, it was revealed that Marshall was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder at Boston's McLean Hospital after his incident with Nogami-Campbell.

Catherine Steiner-Adair

Dr. Steiner-Adair is an Associate Psychologist at McLean Hospital and Clinical Instructor in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.

Eric J. Nestler

He completed his residency in psychiatry at both McLean Hospital in Massachusetts and Yale in 1987, then served as the Director of the Division of Molecular Psychiatry at Yale until 2000.

Fire and Rain

In a BBC interview he said the song chronicled his experiences in mental institutions, such as his stay in McLean Hospital in Massachusetts as a senior in high school, and the suicide of a friend.

Gladys Spencer-Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough

Edward Deacon soon became mentally unstable and was hospitalised at McLean Hospital, dying there in 1901.

Harrisburg State Hospital

The hospital settings were meant to resemble those of the grounds of McLean Hospital in Massachusetts.

Internet addiction disorder

According to Maressa Orzack, director of the Computer Addiction Study at Harvard University's McLean Hospital, between 5% and 10% of Web surfers suffer some form of Web dependency.

Jordi Folch Pi

Jordi Folch Pi was a Catalan biochemist at Harvard University (McLean Hospital) who is recognized universally as one of the founders of the field of structural chemistry of complex lipids and as a leader in the development of Neurochemistry as a distinct discipline within the Neurosciences.

In 1944, with only 33 years of age, Folch was appointed director of the new Biological Research Laboratory at the McLean Hospital (a division of Massachusetts General Hospital) and assistant professor of biological chemistry at Harvard Medical School to develop a program in Neuroscience.

Jörg-Peter Ewert

During a research project 1970-71, he worked as a Fellow of the Foundations' Fund for Research in Psychiatry with the neuropsychologist David J. Ingle at the McLean Hospital (Harvard Medical School) in Belmont, MA, USA.

Maryanne Wolf

She has also worked on language research and child development at Harvard Medical School and the McLean Hospital Department of Psychiatry in Boston.

Walle Nauta

He was a neurophysiologist in the Division of Neuropsychiatry at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (1951–1964) and a neuroanatomist at McLean Hospital (1975).