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The University of Southern California has established the Institute with a commitment of research space, technological support, and start-up funding. To lead this effort it has recruited Professors Antonio Damasio and Hanna Damasio, two of the world’s leading investigators and authors in the neurology of mind and behavior. The Damasios bring to USC a notable record of 25 years of federal and private funding of medical research; scientific discoveries and influential theorizing; academic distinctions; and team leadership. The Damasios and their collaborators have elucidated fundamental aspects of the neuroscience of human emotions; shown how emotions play both positive and negative roles in decision-making but that their complete absence is counterproductive; demonstrated that non-conscious activity expresses itself in actions, perceptions and decisions; expanded the understanding of language processing, face recognition, and learning and memory, with a special emphasis on the memory impairments in Alzheimer’s disease; and developed new tools for brain imaging (e.g. Brainvox, MAP-3).
BRAIN AND CREATIVITY INSTITUTE
Scientific Staff
Antonio Damasio, MD, PhD
Hanna Damasio, MD
Zhong-Lin Lu, PhD
Antoine Bechara, PhD
John Monterosso
Lisa Aziz-Zadeh, PhD
Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, PhD
Jonas Kaplan, PhD
Dimitrios Pantazis, PhD
Jean-Baptiste Pochon, PhD
John Allen, PhD
Christine Vidal, PhD
Kaspar Meyer, MD
Savio Wong, PhD
Jessica Wisnowski, PhD
Gui Xue, PhD
Corianne Rogalsky, PhD
Lin Xiao, PhD
Martin Reimann, PhD
Andrea McColl
Meghen Miles
Xiaofei Yang
Tong Sheng
Glenn Fox
Lei Liew
Julie Werner
Mona Sobhani
Helder Filipe Araujo
Kingson Man
Vanessa Singh
Andrew Goldman
Dana Smith
Ryan Essex
BCI Fellows
Richard Leahy (Engineering)
Irving Biederman (Psychology)
Bosco Tjan (Psychology)
Jack McArdle (Psychology)
Helena Chui (Neurology)
David Millett (Neurology)
Manuel Castells (Annenberg)
Mara Mather (Gerontology)
Roberta Williams (Children’s Hospital)
Simon Wilke (Economics)
Ioana Uricaru (Cinema)
Josef Parvizi (Stanford)
Jeff Saver (UCLA)
Affiliate Staff (Dornsife Imaging Center)
JC Zhuang
Xiangrui Li
Management
Susan P. Lynch,
Executive Administrator
Cinthya Nunez,
Administrative Services Coordinator
Pamela McNeff,
Executive Assistant
