Antonio Damasio



ANTONIO R. DAMASIO, M.D. Ph.D is M.W. Van Allen Professor and Head of Neurology, University of Iowa, where he studies the fundamental mechanisms of cognition and cognitive and behavioral disturbances caused by diseases of central nervous systems
Damasio was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 1999 and has been the recipient of numerous honors worldwide.

He is the author of The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness; Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain; and Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain.

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