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	Introduction The Courtyard is surrounded by clinical care and research buildings as well as a cafeteria and library. With its sprawling oak tree, frog pond and abundant greenery, it offers a peaceful respite for patients, their families and hospital staff.
			Recreation Building Housing McLean's Behavioral Health Partial Hospital Program and a patient gymnasium, this building was designed by Edmund Wheelwright and Parkman B. Haven, and completed in 1897. It featured a gym, bowling alley, billiard rooms, woodworking and bookbinding shops, therapeutic baths and beginning in 1904, housed the experimental psychology research laboratory. More about partial hospital >>>
			de Marneffe Building The first floor houses a variety of services for patients and staff including the Jonathan O. Cole Mental Health Consumer Resource Center. The second floor houses the McLean Mental Health Sciences Library, which offers a broad selection of books, journals, audio and videotapes on psychiatric illness and its treatments. More about library >>>
			Mailman Research Center: West Wing Hot spot: Investigators in this 32,000-square-foot west wing, dedicated in 1977 by Former First Lady Rosalyn Carter, carry on research that began at McLean in 1888, when it became the first U.S. psychiatric hospital to establish basic and clinical laboratories to study the role of biological factors in mental illness. More about research >>>
			Mailman Research Center: East Wing The 23,000-square-foot east wing, dedicated in 1999, provides McLean investigators with more space for the ultra-modern technologies of molecular biology and genetics that are revolutionizing the study of psychiatric disorders. With the addition of this space, the MRC's laboratories have grown from 10 departments in 1997 to 19 in 2001. More about research >>>
			Mailman Research Center: Brain Bank The Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center at McLean is the nation's first and largest "brain bank" for the study of neuropsychiatric disorders. Since its establishment in 1978, the center has collected well over 5,000 brains and it distributes more than 4,000 individual brain tissue specimens annually to researchers worldwide. More about research >>>
			North Belknap A clinical care building, this three-story construction was designed in the Tudor style by the architectural firm of Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge. Completed between 1892 and 1894, it was originally known as the Belknap House for Men. More about OCD Institute >>>