Douglas F. Watt, PhD was trained in psychology and neuropsychology at Harvard College and Boston College, completing his PhD studies in 1985 after getting a BA in 1972 at Harvard and a Master’s Degree in Psychology at Northeastern in 1976. Over the past 40 years of a varied clinical practice, he been the Director of Clinical Psychology/Clinical Neuropsychology at two local Boston teaching hospitals, on the faculty of the Boston University School of Medicine for much of that time.  He had a teaching faculty appointment at Harvard Medical School for seven years, and recently, he taught behavioral neuroscience and biological psychology at Lesley University in their graduate program. With Jaak Panksepp, he co-authored a target article on the neurobiology of depression, emphasizing its conserved evolutionary basis and its primary relationship to separation distress.  In 2016, he published an edited volume with Dr. Panksepp on the neurobiology and psychology of empathy, by Nova Science.  His current clinical and research interests center on depression as a conserved mechanism to terminate protracted separation distress.