Crucial reading - New York Times Book Review
Antonio Damasio is a University Professor, David Dornsife Professor of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Neurology, and director of the Brain and Creativity Institute at the University of Southern California. Damasio's other books include Self Comes to Mind, Looking for Spinoza and The Feeling of What Happens. He has received the Honda Prize, the Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research, and, shared with his wife Hanna, the Pessoa, Signoret, and Cozzarelli prizes. Damasio is a fellow of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. He lives in Los Angeles.
A thought-provoking account
*New Scientist*
Rich in provocative concepts about intelligence, memory, creativity
and passion
*Los Angeles Times*
idiosyncratic and engaging
*The Times*
Damasio is a profound thinker and an elegant writer...Descartes'
Error is a fascinating exploration of the biology of reason and its
inseparable dependence on emotion
*Oliver Sacks*
Crucial reading
*New York Times Book Review*
The idea that the mind exists as a distinct entity from the body has profoundly influenced Western culture since Descartes proclaimed, "I think, therefore I am." Damasio, head of neurology at the University of Iowa and a prominent researcher on human brain function, challenges this premise in a fascinating and well-reasoned argument on the central role that emotion and feelings play in human rationality. According to Damasio, the same brain structures regulate both human biology and behavior and are indispensable to normal cognitive processes. Damasio demonstrates how patients (his own as well as the 19th-century railroad worker Nicholas Gage) with prefrontal cortical damage can no longer generate the emotions necessary for effective decision-making. A gifted scientist and writer, Damasio combines an Oliver Sack-like reportage with the presentation of complex, theoretical issues in neurobiology. Recommended for wide purchase.-Laurie Bartolini, Legislative Research, Springfield, Ill.
A thought-provoking account * New Scientist *
Rich in provocative concepts about intelligence, memory, creativity
and passion * Los Angeles Times *
idiosyncratic and engaging * The Times *
Damasio is a profound thinker and an elegant writer...Descartes'
Error is a fascinating exploration of the biology of reason and
its inseparable dependence on emotion -- Oliver Sacks
Crucial reading * New York Times Book Review *
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