Roblox founder gives $20 million grant to study diet-based therapies for mental health
Roblox founder David Baszucki and his wife have donated $20 million to McLean Hospital to establish a center for metabolic psychiatry. The facility will research how nutritional interventions, such as ketogenic diets, can be used to treat severe mental illnesses like bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.
Why it matters
This significant private investment could accelerate the integration of metabolic science into mainstream psychiatric treatment protocols.
Roblox founder David Baszucki and his wife, Jan Ellison Baszucki, have turned their family's personal journey with their son’s bipolar disorder into a major philanthropic investment in mental health research. Through their family foundation, Baszucki Group, the couple has awarded a $20 million grant to McLean Hospital to establish the McLean Center for Metabolic Psychiatry. This Massachusetts-based facility will explore whether targeted nutritional and metabolic therapies, such as ketogenic diets, can improve psychiatric symptoms and brain function in patients living with severe mental illnesses.McLean Hospital, a member of the Mass General Brigham healthcare network and a primary psychiatric teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School, announced that the centre will act as the international flagship for the newly established Global Network for the Advancement of Metabolic Psychiatry (MetPsy).
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