[Overseas Research Base] McLean Hospital

• by EVOMT
• 2019-11-18

Hospital Introduction

McLean Hospital was founded in 1811 as a psychiatrist at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Since its inception, the hospital has been a world leader in the treatment of mental disorders and the training of mental health professionals. As the main teaching institution of Harvard Medical School, McLean Hospital has the largest research project in neuroscience and mental disorders in the United States. The hospital's extensive clinical trial projects can provide patients with the opportunity to use these still experimental drugs before they are officially launched.

McLean Hospital has a wide range of clinical research on mental disorders, including alcohol and drug abuse, Alzheimer's disease and other mental disorders in the elderly, bipolar disorder, mental disorders in children and adolescents, depression, anxiety, developmental disorders, dissociation disorders, psychological disorders, eating disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and schizophrenia. The hospital provides a comprehensive range of treatment and care for psychiatric patients of all ages.

McLean Hospital was founded in 1811 and has a history of 200 years. It was established as an early psychiatric hospital. In 1826, Boston merchant John& middot; John McLean donated $25000 to the hospital and left a legacy of $90000 to the hospital. In honor of McLean, the hospital was renamed& ldquo; The McLean Asylum for the Mentally& rdquo;。 In 1892, The McLean Asylum for the Mentally was officially renamed McLean Hospital in recognition of the current philosophy and research on mental illness and its treatment. As a specialized psychiatric hospital with a long history, McLean Hospital's great contribution to the field of mental illness is beyond doubt. In 1888, McLean established basic and clinical laboratories to study the role of biological factors in mental illness. This is the first such research project in an American psychiatric hospital. In the same year, the hospital also established research laboratories for pathology, psychology, microbiology, and chemistry.

Hospital Development

In 1951, protein lipids were discovered in McLean;

In 1957, McLean developed an adopted procedure for extracting and identifying brain lipids. This is a key advance in improving understanding of the structure of the brain; In 1960, McLean became the first electron microscope center of the American Psychiatric Research Institute; In 1984, McLean established the first controlled study to evaluate the impact of psychoanalytic psychotherapy on patients with schizophrenia. The results of this study have stimulated a new generation of social psychological methods for the treatment of this disease; In 1988, McLean developed and established diagnostic criteria for borderline personality disorder. In the same year, the hospital became the first psychiatric hospital to establish a brain magnetic resonance imaging center; In 1996, McLean's researchers discovered the first evidence that chemical abnormalities in the function of brain nerve cells in Alzheimer's patients led to the first batch of drugs approved by the FDA to treat Alzheimer's disease; In 2007, investigators from McLean Hospital conducted the first national survey of patients with eating disorders, indicating that binge eating is more common than anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa;

Hospital size

McLean Hospital has multiple service locations throughout the country, with Belmont, Massachusetts, its main hospital area. It provides a range of services for patients with acute and chronic long-term diseases, including long-term hospitalization, outpatient and residential services, and also has three specialized treatment institutions. Currently, there are 177 beds, and each ward is a relatively private space. The hospital has more than 1900 medical and nursing personnel, and the annual number of patients is more than 6000.

As an independent psychiatric hospital and the largest psychiatric affiliated hospital of Harvard Medical School, McLean Hospital provides a unique environment for optimizing treatment and supports a series of patient centered research projects.