Abstract
Abstract Antonio Damasio is Van Allen Distinguished Professor and Head of the Department of Neurology at the University of Iowa; and Adjunct Professor at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California. He received both his MD and his doctorate in his native Portugal, at the University of Lisbon. His research team in Iowa has made outstanding contributions to the understanding of memory, language, emotion, and decision-making; with his wife, Dr Hanna Damasio, he has created at the University of Iowa one of the world’s leading centres for the investigation of the neural basis of cognition. Professor Damasio is a member of the National Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Advisory Council on Neurological Diseases and Stroke, and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. His most recent book, Descartes’ Error: Emotion and Reason in the Human Brain, has been published worldwide.
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