Antonio R. Damasio
Expert on cognition and behavior, with special focus on emotion, decision-making and consciousness
David Dornsife Professor of Neuroscience
Director, Brain and Creativity Institute
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts & Sciences
Contact at: (213) 740-3462 or damasio@usc.edu
Expertise:
- cognitive science
- psychology
- neurology
- the identification of specific neural sites involved in emotion processing
- the demonstration that emotion is implicated in decision-making
- the identification of limbic and brainstem sites of pathology in Alzheimer's disease
- Author, Descartes' Error: 10th Anniversary Edition (2005), Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow and the Feeling Brain (2003), The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness (1999)
- Recipient, Prince of Asturias Award for Scientific and Technical Research (2005); Presidential Medal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (2006); Honorary Professorship by Southeast University in Nanjing, China (March 2005); Signoret Prize in Cognitive Neuroscience (2004); Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award, International Psychoanalytical Association (2004); Nonino Prize (2003)
- One of Best Doctors in America (Neurology) (2006, and every year since 1992)
Foreign Languages:
English, Portuguese, French, Spanish
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