Antonio Damasio
Antonio R. Damasio, M.D.
Ph.D is M.W. Van Allen Professor and Head of Neurology,
University
of
Iowa
. He completed his medical degree and doctorate at the University of Lisbon
School in
Portugal
and was a research fellow at the
Aphasia
Research
Center
in
Boston
. He has won many honors and awards, including the Arnold Pfeffer Prize (2002),
the Reenpaa Prize in Neuroscience (2000), and was elected to the
American
Academy
of Arts and Sciences (1997) and the Neurosciences Research Program (1997). His
research interests include neurobiology of the mind, specifically the
understanding of the neural systems that sub serve memory, language, emotion,
and decision-making; his clinical interests focus on disorders of behavior and
cognition, and movement disorders.
Selected Bibliography
Damasio, Antonio R. Looking for Spinoza.
Harcourt: 2003.
Damasio, Antonio R. The Feeling of What
Happens. Harvest Books: 2000.
Demasio, Antonio R. Descartes' Error:
Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain.
Avon
Books: 1995.
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