Would you like to be the first one on your block with inside information on cutting edge research regarding laughter as an emotion based communication tool in psychotherapy? If so, Dr. Marci is ready to oblige.

Dr. Carl D. Marci is the Director of Social Neuroscience for the Psychotherapy Research Program, a staff psychiatrist at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and Instructor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. In addition, he is a Visiting Lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Program in Media Arts & Sciences and a Diplomat of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. Dr. Marci received his M.A. in psychology and philosophy at Oxford University as a Rhodes scholar and then completed his M.D. with honors at Harvard Medical School. He is a graduate of the MGH/McLean Adult Psychiatry Training Program and has won several awards including the Harvard Medical School sponsored Livingston and Kaplan Fellowships for Research and recently the National Association for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression Young Investigator Award.

Dr. Marci's current research projects include the physiology of laughter, the physiology and neurobiology of emotion, and the physiologic and behavioral measures of depression in response to treatment. His goal is to quantify the relationship between physiologic measures, emotions and social interaction in a variety of settings to help improve our understanding of the psychobiology of empathy, learning, and human inter-relatedness.

Dr Marci will present his research results

Saturday, February, 18th