Marco antónio damásio biography
Marco antónio damásio biography
Marco antónio damásio biography wife.
Antonio Damasio
Portuguese neuroscientist (born 1944)
Antonio Damasio (Portuguese: António Damásio) is a Portugueseneuroscientist. He is currently the David Dornsife Chair in Neuroscience, as well as Professor of Psychology, Philosophy, and Neurology, at the University of Southern California, and, additionally, an adjunct professor at the Salk Institute.[1] He was previously the chair of neurology at the University of Iowa for 20 years.[2] Damasio heads the Brain and Creativity Institute, and has authored several books: his work, Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain (2010), explores the relationship between the brain and consciousness.[3] Damasio's research in neuroscience has shown that emotions play a central role in social cognition and decision-making.[4]
Life and work
During the 1960s, "Damasio studied medicine at the University of Lisbon Medical School, where he also did his neurological residency and comple