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Jeff Victoroff, MD, MA
Associate Professor of Clinical Neurology and Psychiatry, Keck School of Medicine, USC

Wednesday, November 4 04:00-05:15 p.m.
346 - Happiness: New Insights from Social Psychology and Neuroscience SC VT NP
1.25 credits - Room: Lagoon ABCGHI
Jeff Victoroff, MD, MA, Associate Professor of Clinical Neurology and Psychiatry, Keck School of Medicine, USC

Is it better conceptualized as a state, a trait, or a culture-bound construct? Are there predictable and universal causes of human happiness? To what degree is one's degree of happiness modifiable by any life event or intervention? In this session, participants will get an introduction to the science of subjective well-being. The session will provide an overview of the history, epidemiology, social psychology and neurobiology of happiness.

By participating in this activity, attendees will be able to:

  1. Identify the three psychological components of subjective well-being
  2. Discuss the evidence that happiness is or is not related to wealth, health, love, or sexual activity; 3)Discuss the evidence of an inborn component to human happiness and;
  3. List four interventions likely to lastingly enhance subjective well-being.
Wednesday, November 4 05:30-06:45 p.m.
363 - Why We War: The Evolutionary Origins of Catastrophic Violence SC VT
1.25 credits - Room: Lagoon ABCGHI
Jeff Victoroff, MD, MA, Associate Professor of Clinical Neurology and Psychiatry, Keck School of Medicine, USC

This session will provide participants with an overview of human aggression. Based on the speaker's new chapter in the forthcoming Kaplan/Sadock Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, this talk will summarize what we know about the origin, pathophysiology, and clinical management of aggression as it occurs in multiple disorders--from ADHD to organic brain injury. Sample cases will be used to illustrate optimum management based on state of the art literature review.

By participating in this activity, attendees will be able to:

  1. Identify the brain regions most important for regulating individual human aggression;
  2. Discuss how the evolutionary adaptation of sociality helps to explain war;
  3. List the 7 big factors that help account for collective human aggression; and
  4. Discuss the evidence that interventions to reduce intergroup prejudice can enhance the prospects of long-term peace.

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