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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
Hanna Damasio, MD
Zhong-Lin Lu, PhD
Antoine Bechara, PhD
Lisa Aziz-Zadeh, PhD
Julian Jamison, PhD
Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, PhD
Christine Vidal, PhD
Xiangrui Li, PhD
Kaspar Meyer, MD
Meghen Miles, BA
Andrea McColl, BS & MA
Glenn Fox
Ben Paul
Jared Scheib
Ryan Essex
Ning Zhou
Francesco Dandekar
Cecelia Webber
Adam Aronson
Xiaofei Yang

Tong Sheng
Dimitri Pantazis

Scientific Associates

Tracy Sitzer, PhD
Ioana Uricaru, MS, BFA

Management

Susan P. Lynch
Institute Manager and Executive Administrator