Dana Dornsife Chair in Neuroscience and Professor of Psychology and Neurology Co-Director, USC College Brain and Creativity Institute
Director of the Dana and David Dornsife Cognitive Neuroscience Imaging Center
Academic Appointment, Affiliation, and Employment History
Tenure Track Appointments
Dana Dornsife Professor of Neuroscience; Director, Dana and David Dornsife Cognitive Neuroscience Imaging Center; Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience and Neurology, University of Southern California, 7/1/2005-
Professor, Department of Neurology, University of Iowa, 1/1/1985-
Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology, University of Iowa, 1/1/1977-
Distinguished Professor, University of Iowa, 1/1/1998-7/1/2005
Associate Professor, Department of Neurology, University of Iowa, 1/1/1981-1/1/1985
Non-Tenure Track Appointments
Distinguished Adjunct Professor, University of Iowa, 7/1/2005-
Adjunct Professor, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, Ca, 1/1/1994-
Instructor, Department of Neurology, University of Iowa, 1/1/1976-1/1/1977
Other Employment
Co-Director, Division of Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Neurology, University of Iowa, 1/1/1985-1/1/2004
Director, Laboratory for Neuroimaging and Human Neuroanatomy, Department of Neurology, University of Iowa, 1/1/1982-1/1/2004
Director, The Migraine Clinic, Department of Neurology, University of Iowa, 1/1/1977-1/1/1988
Fellow-Associate, Department of Neurology, University of Iowa, 6/1/1976-10/1/1975
Description of Research
Summary Statement of Research Interests
Hanna Damasio pioneered the use of brain imaging methods in the study of brain lesions, such as computerized tomography and nuclear magnetic resonance imaging, which can be used for diagnosing all of the diseases that affect the brain. She is director of the USC Dana and David Dornsife Cognitive Neuroscience Imaging Center.
A standard reference in the field, the second edition of Damasio's detailed atlas of the human brain based on computerized images, Human Brain Anatomy in Computerized Images, was published this past May. Her award-winning book Lesion Analysis in Neuropsychology is widely used by neurologists, neurosurgeons, neuroradiologists, psychiatrists, and neuroscientists, as well as, medical and neuroscience students. She is the author of numerous papers on the neuroanatomical substrates of higher brain function.
Honors and Awards
Endowed Chair, Dana Dornsife Chair in the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, 2/1/2006-
Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Aachen, 2002
Listed in Best Doctors in America under Neurology, 2002
Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Lisbon, 2001
Named Distinguished Professor, University of Iowa Foundation, 1998
Prize for Outstanding Book in Bio and Medical Sciences, 1989, from the Professional and Scholarly Book Division of the Association of American Publishers for “Lesion Analysis in Neuropsychology”, 1998
Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1997
Alexander von Humbolt Fellowship, Order of Santiago da Espada (Grand Oficial), 1995
Elected to the American Neurological Association, 1995
