Carl D. Marci, M.D.
Affiliation: Massachusetts General Hospital
Email: cmarci@partners.org

Biography




Dr. Carl D. Marci is the Director of Social Neuroscience for the Psychotherapy Research Program, an attending staff psychiatrist in the Department of Psychiatry at the Massachusetts General Hospital, (pending) Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, 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 Award for Young Investigators, Kaplan Fellowships for Research, and recently the NARSAD Young Investigator Award. He is also the 2001 recipient of the American College of Psychiatrists Laughlin Award and 2003 recipient of the Harvard Psychiatry Mysell Research Award. Dr. Marci's current research interest involves the use of innovative platforms for recording psychophysiology combined with voice features, behavioral measures, and psychosocial measures of social-emotional processes, empathy and alliance during psychotherapy. Other projects include the physiology of laughter during psychotherapy, the physiology and neurobiology of emotion, and the physiologic and behavioral measures of depression 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 empathy, learning, and human inter-relatedness. His work has been featured in multiple mainstream media pieces including in Newsweek, The Boston Globe, and FOX News.

Articles

Marci, C. D., & Roberts, T. G. (1998). The increasing debt of medical students:  How much is too much?  Journal of the American Medical Association, 280, 1879-80.

Marci, C. D., Anderson, W. B., Viechnicki, M. B., Greenspan, S. L. (2000). Bone mineral density substantially influences health-related behaviors of postmenopausal women.  Calcified Tissue International, 66, 113-18.

Dougherty, D. D., Rauch, S. L., Deckersbach, T., Marci, C. D., Loh, R., Shin, L. M., Alpert, N. M., Fischman, A. J., & Fava, M. (2004). Ventromedial prefrontal cortex and amygdala dysfunction during anger induction positron emission tomography study in patients with major depression with anger attacks. Archives of General Psychiatry, 61, 795-804.

Marci, C. D., Moran, E. K., & Orr, S. P. (2004). Physiologic evidence for the interpersonal role of laughter during psychotherapy. Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease, 192, 689-695.

Sung, M., Marci, C. D., & Pentland, A. (2005). Wearable feedback systems for rehabilitation. Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, 2, 2-17.

Marci, C. D., & Riess, H. (2005). The clinical relevance of psychophysiology: Support for the psychobiology of psychodynamic process.  American Journal of Psychotherapy, 59, 213-226.

Sung, M., Marci, C. D., & Pentland, A. (2005). Objective physiological and behavioral measures for identifying and tracking depression state in clinically depressed patients. MIT Technical Report, 595, 1-20.

Marci, C. D. (2006). A biologically based measure of emotional engagement. Journal of Advertising Research, 46, 381-387.

Principe, J., Marci, C. D, Glick, D., & Ablon, J. S. (2006). The therapeutic alliance, patient contemplation, and continuation in early psychotherapy. Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training, 43, 139-141.

Marci, C. D., & Orr, S. P. (2006). The effects of emotional distance on psychophysiologic concordance and perceived empathy between patient and interviewer. Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback, 31, 115-128.

Marci, C. D., Ham, J., Moran, E. K., & Orr, S. P. (2007). Physiologic concordance, empathy, and social-emotional process during psychotherapy. Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease, 195, 103-111.

Fraguas, R., Marci, C. D, Fava, M., Iosifesco, D. V., Bankier, D., Loh, R., & Dougherty, D. (2007). Autonomic reactivity to induced emotion as potential predictor of response to antidepressant treatment. Psychiatry Research, 151, 169-172.

Marci, C. D., Glick, D. M., Loh, R., & Dougherty, D. D. (2007). Physiologic and PET imaging responses to autobiographical recall of emotions. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, (7), 243-250.

Book Chapters

Marci, C. D., Gottlieb, G., Jellinek, M. S., & Summergrad, P. (2000). Managed Care and Psychiatry. In Stern, T. A., & Herman, J. B. (eds). Psychiatry Update and Board Preparation.  McGraw Hill:  New York, pp. 569-572.

Marci, C. D., Gottlieb, G., Jellinek, M. S., & Summergrad, P. (2004). Managed Care and Psychiatry. In Stern, T. A., & Herman, J. B. (eds).  Psychiatry Update and Board Preparation (2nd ed.).  MccGraw Hill: New York, pp. 571-579.

Marci, C. D., & Riess, H. (2008). Physiology Monitoring in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Research.  In Ablon, J. S., & Levy, R. A. (eds.). Evidence-Based Psychodynamic Psychotherapy. Humana Press:  New Jersey.