António C. R. Damásio (IPA: /ɐ̃.'tɔ.ni.u dɐ.'ma.zi.u/) (b. 1944, Lisbon, Portugal) is a physician and neurologist. He is Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience and Neurology at the University of Southern California, where he heads USC's Institute for the Neurological Study of Emotion and Creativity. Prior to taking up his posts at USC, in 2005, Damasio was M.W. Van Allen Professor and Head of Neurology at the University of Iowa Medical Center. Iowa City, Iowa, United States. His career at Iowa lasted from 1976-2005. Besides being a well-known researcher in several areas of the neurosciences, he is a best-seller author of science books for the general public. IPA may refer to: The International Phonetic Alphabet or India Pale Ale ... 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1944 calendar). ... District or region Lisbon Mayor   - Party Carmona Rodrigues PSD Area 84. ... Physician examining a child A physician is a person who practices medicine. ... Neurology is the branch of medicine that deals with the nervous system and disorders affecting it. ... The University of Southern California (also known as USC, SC, Southern California and Southern Cal), Californias oldest private research university, is located in the urban center of Los Angeles, California. ... The University of Iowa is a major national research university located on a 1,900-acre campus in Iowa City, Iowa, USA, on the Iowa River in East Central Iowa. ... Iowa City is a city located in Johnson County, Iowa, USA. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 62,220. ... Official language(s) English Capital Des Moines Largest city Des Moines Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 26th 145,743 km² 320 km 500 km 0. ... Neuroscience is a field of study that deals with the structure, function, development, genetics, biochemistry, physiology, pharmacology, and pathology of the nervous system, divided into the central nervous system (the brain and spinal cord), and the peripheral nervous system, consisting of the myriad nerve pathways running throughout the body. ...

Damasio studied medicine at the University of Lisbon Medical School in Portugal, where he did also his medical residency rotation and completed his doctorate. Later, he moved to the United States as a research fellow for 6 months at the Aphasia Research Center in Boston. His work there on behavioral neurology was done under the supervision of Norman Geschwind. The University of Lisbon (Universidade de Lisboa) is a leading public university in Lisbon, Portugal, and is composed by eight faculties. ... Boston is a town and small port c. ...

As a researcher, Dr. Damasio's main interest is the neurobiology of the mind, especially neural systems which subserve memory, language, emotion, and decision-making. His research has helped to elucidate the neural basis for the emotions and has shown that emotions play a central role in social cognition and decision-making. Neuroscience is a field of study which deals with the structure, function, development, genetics, biochemistry, physiology, pharmacology and pathology of the nervous system. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards and appeal to a wider international audience, this article may require cleanup. ... Memory is the ability of the brain to store, retain, and subsequently recall information. ... Emotion, in its most general definition, is a neural impulse that moves an organism to action, prompting automatic reactive behavior that has been adapted through evolution as a survival mechanism to meet a survival need. ... Decision making is the cognitive process of selecting a course of action from among multiple alternatives. ...

As a clinician, he and his collaborators study and treat the disorders of behavior and cognition, and movement disorders. Behavior (or behaviour in Commonwealth English) refers to the actions or reactions of an object or organism, usually in relation to the environment. ... Look up Cognition in Wiktionary, the free dictionary The term cognition (Latin, cogito: to think) is used in several different loosely related ways. ... List of Movement disorders Akinesia (lack of movement) Athetosis (contorted torsion or twisting) Ataxia Ballismus (violent involuntary rapid and irregular movements) Hemiballismus Bradykinesia (slow movement) Chorea (rapid, involuntary movement) Sydenhams chorea Rheumatic chorea Huntingtons chorea Dystonia (sustained torsion) Dystonia muscularum Blepharospasm Writers cramp Spasmodic torticollis (twisting of...

As a science writer, Damasio's books deal with the relationship between emotions and feelings, and what are their bases in the brain. His 1994 book, "Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain," was nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Award. His second book, "The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness," was named as one of the ten best books of 2001 by The New York Times Book Review, a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year, a Library Journal Best Book of the Year, and has eighteen foreign editions. Damasio's most recent book, "Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain," was published in 2003. In it, Damasio explores philosophy and its relations to neurobiology, suggesting that it might provide guidelines for human ethics. Comparative brain sizes In animals, the brain, or encephalon (Greek for in the head), is the control center of the central nervous system. ... Descartes Error: a book by neurologist Antonio R. Damasio, in which the author presents an argument that emotion and reason are not completely separate and, in fact, are quite dependent upon one another and essential to rational thinking. ... The Philosopher (detail), by Rembrandt Philosophy is a study that includes various diverse subfields such as aesthetics, epistemology, ethics, logic, and metaphysics. ... Ethics (from Greek ἦθος meaning custom) is the branch of axiology, one of the four major branches of philosophy, which attempts to understand the nature of morality; to define that which is right from that which is wrong. ...

He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, and European Academy of Arts and Sciences. Damasio has received many awards including the Prince of Asturias Award, Kappers Neuroscience Medal, the Beaumont Medal from the American Medical Association and the Reenpaa Prize in Neuroscience. He is also in the editorial board of many of the most important journals in the field, Learning and Memory (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory); Journal of Neuroscience; Transactions of the Royal Society; Consciousness and Cognition; Neuroscience News; The Neuroscientist; Learning and Memory; Human Brain Mapping; European Neurology; Cognitive Brain Research; Cerebral Cortex; Brain and Cognition and Brain and Behavioral Sciences. The House of the Academy, Cambridge, Massachusetts. ... President Harding and the National Academy of Sciences at the White House, Washington, DC, April 1921 The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a corporation in the United States whose members serve pro bono as advisers to the nation on science, engineering, and medicine. ... The Prince of Asturias Awards (in Spanish: Premios Príncipe de Asturias) is a series of annual prizes given in Spain by the Fundación Príncipe de Asturias to individuals from around the world who make notable achievements in the sciences, humanities, or public affairs. ... The American Medical Association (AMA) is the largest association of medical doctors in the United States. ... The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) is a research and educational institution, consisting of science laboratories located in Cold Spring Harbor, New York on Long Island, USA. The Laboratory has research programs focusing on cancer, neurobiology, plant genetics, genomics and bioinformatics, and has a broad educational mission, including the recently...

Recent interests of Prof. Damasio include Neuro-psychoanalysis. He is also a contributor to the Journal of Neuro-Psychoanalysis.

Prof. Damasio is married to Dr. Hanna Damasio, his colleague and co-author of several works.

Bibliography

• Descartes' Error : Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain, Pan Macmillan, April 1995, (ISBN 0380726475)
• The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness, Harvest Books, October 2000 (ISBN 0156010755)
• Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain, Harcourt, February 2003 (ISBN 0151005575)

See also

• Cognitive neuropsychology
• Embodied philosophy
• Embodiment
• Emotion
• Neuropsychoanalysis

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External links

• Dept. of Neurology, University of Iowa
• USC Faculty page