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	Antonio Damasio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Damasio studied medicine at the University of Lisbon Medical School in Portugal, where he did also his medical residency rotation and completed his doctorate.
		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.
		Damasio is married to Dr. Hanna Damasio, his colleague and co-author of several works.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Antonio_Damasio (503 words)

	Review of Damasio, Descartes' Error
		Damasio's emphasis on the distinction between imagistic and dispositional representations finds its parallels in the "scratchpad" and "workspace" and "slipnet" and other purely functional (that is, entirely non-anatomical) categories postulated by this family of models.
		Damasio sees that the only way to explain the presumptive qualia is, once again, to distribute their effects and powers through the body, instead of concentrating them in some imaginary dazzle in the eyes of the Cartesian homunculus.
		Damasio has bravely provided a pretty good--maybe a very good--model, and some of the most fascinating parts of the book are his accounts of the recent experiments conducted in his lab, involving patients with damage to the frontal regions that figure so prominently in his theory.
	ase.tufts.edu /cogstud/papers/damasio.htm (2580 words)

	Descartes Error: Reviews
		Antonio Damasio, in _Descartes' Error_ undertakes an ambitious task: to convince the reader to reconsider the preconceptions he or she is likely to have on the subject of rationality and decision-making.
		Antonio Damasio's Descartes' Error is a stimulating attempt to convince readers that emotion and reason are not completely separate and, in fact, they are quite dependent upon one another in the "normally" functioning human.
		Damasio makes an interesting point when he says," diseases of the brain are seen as tragedies visited on people who cannot be blamed for their condition, while diseases of the mind, especially those that affect conduct and emotion, are seen as social inconveniences for which sufferers have much to answer.
	serendip.brynmawr.edu /bb/damasio/Damasioreview.html (5913 words)

	Antonio Damasio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		As a science writer, Damasio's books deal with the relationship between emotions and feelings, and what are their basis in the brain.
		Damasio has received many awards including the Kappers Neuroscience Medal, the Beaumont Medal from the American Medical Association and the Reenpaa Prize in Neuroscience.
		Damasio is married to Dr., his colleague and co-author of several works.
	www.newalbany.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Antonio_Damasio (451 words)

	Book review of Antonio Damasio
		Damasio has identified a region of the brain (in the right, "non-dominant" hemisphere) that could be the place where the representation of the body state is maintained.
		Instead, Damasio shows that a number of brain-damage cases in which a reduction in emotionality was the cause for "irrational" behaviour.
		Damasio believes that the brain structures responsible for emotion and the ones responsible for reason partially overlap, and this fact lends physical, neural evidence to his hypothesis that emotion and reason cooperate.
	www.thymos.com /mind/damasio2.html (1345 words)

	Psyche 6(8): Review of Antonio Damasio's "The Feeling of What Happens" by Aldo Mosca
		Antonio Damasio and his colleagues have been working for several years on the fundamental assumption that neuroscience has mostly explored strictly cognitive processes, whereby the brain gathers and manipulates information about the environment, but has overlooked the important relation between the brain and the body or soma, including emotional processes.
		Damasio believes that consciousness comes in degrees, and one of the distinctive features of his account is the proposal to withhold the title of "conscious" altogether from a number of states which are nevertheless "mental" and are often ascribed to consciousness of the first order.
		Damasio warns us that it is a mistake to think of a single consciousness center -- he is neither a phrenologist nor a "Cartesian materialist" (Dennett, 1991; Dennett and Kinsbourne, 1992) -- and suggests instead that there is a parallel simultaneous activation of different structures.
	psyche.cs.monash.edu.au /v6/psyche-6-10-mosca.html (5386 words)

	Interview with Antonio Damasio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Antonio R. Damasio is the M.W. Van Allen Distinguished Professor and Head of the Department of Neurology at the University of Iowa College of Medicine and Adjunct Professor at the Salk Insitute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California.
		tc "Antonio R. Damasio is the M.W. Van Allen Distinguished Professor and Head of the Department of Neurology at the University of Iowa College of Medicine and Adjunct Professor at the Salk Insitute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California.
		Antonio Damasio: The resurgence is due to the maturity of the sciences of brain and mind.
	hcs.harvard.edu /~husn/BRAIN/vol8-spring2001/damasio.htm (1568 words)

	Music and Emotion - Notes on Antonio Damasio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Damasio’s book reinterprets the folk theory of thinking in a scientific framework, arguing that emotions are both critical to rational behavior and thoroughly grounded in the body.
		Damasio explains this with his "somatic marker hypothesis," which posits that when a thought generates a frontal cortex emotional response, the thought is "marked" by the physical emotion.
		Damasio claims the difference between tests of reason and the rationality involved in social interactions or everyday decision-making is that both of the latter are highly ambiguous.
	www.music-cog.ohio-state.edu /Music829D/Notes/Descartes.html (611 words)

	The Feeling of What Happens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Instead, Damasio combines a vast range of existing knowledge about the inner workings of the incredibly specialized human brain along with a fascinating look at cases of consciousness disorders due to brain damage he has witnessed in his laboratory to provide a new perspective on consciousness.
		Damasio breaks down the concept of consciousness — the relationship of an organism to the objects in its environment — into what he calls "core consciousness" and "extended consciousness." Core consciousness consists of the level of the individual’s alertness in interactions of the here and now.
		Damasio explains that this type of awareness about the environment is present in infants and nearly all nonhuman primates.
	hcs.harvard.edu /~husn/BRAIN/vol7-spring2000/damasio.htm (991 words)

	:: Events :: Damasio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Damasio has pursued the hypothesis that our sense of self is rooted in body representations, and has shown that self-regulating functions can be impaired by damage in specific brain regions.
		Damasio’s work on the study of the workings of the brain has had a major impact in the ongoing research on the brain and human behavior.
		Antonio R. Damasio is the Van Allen Distinguished Professor and head of the department of neurology at the University of Iowa Medical Center and is an adjunct professor at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California.
	www.humnet.ucla.edu /humnet/cmcs/events/Damasio.htm (573 words)

	Emotions and Social Intelligence: Jane Braaten and Antonio Damasio
		Damasio's work as a neurologist with patients suffering a myriad of disorders, including brain damage, and or problems with memory, language, and reason have led him to believe that mental activity needs participation from the brain and the body.
		Damasio offers an understanding of emotions and feelings through what he calls the "somatic - marker hypothesis." This hypothesis and subsequent theory explain that effective social behavior is dependent on feelings and emotions just as much as on the objective ability to reason.
		Damasio, in effect, argues that the capacity to be emotional is synonymous with being socially intelligent.
	www.gustavus.edu /oncampus/academics/philosophy/kaaren.html (3822 words)

	Brain, Emotion and Consciousness - a lecture by Antonio Damasio reviewed by Peter McCarthy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Professor Damasio is professor of neurology at Iowa university.
		Damasio believes that emotion became increasingly ignored because of the elusive and subjective nature of the topic.
		What is important in evaluating Damasio's thought, is realising that he does not offer an account of consciousness or feeling (feeling presupposes consciousness), for him it is a given (albeit an evolutionary one), and there is a sense in which 'progress' can be attained as more people take consciousness for granted.
	www.damaris.org /dcscs/readingroom/2000/damasio.htm (1492 words)

	Neuroscience Experts Join USC
		Antonio Damasio is currently the Van Allen Distinguished Professor and head of the department of neurology at the University of Iowa College of Medicine.
		Hanna Damasio is currently a Distinguished Professor of Neurology and director of the Laboratory for Human Neuroanatomy and Neuroimaging at the University of Iowa Medical School.
		Antonio Damasio’s work has shown that emotions play a central role in human decision-making, and has led to a broader integration of emotions into the mainstream explanatory schema of cognitive neuroscience.
	www.usc.edu /uscnews/stories/10927.html (1159 words)

	Amazon.com: The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness: Books: Antonio Damasio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Damasio's perspective is, fortunately, becoming increasingly common in the scientific community; despite all the protestations of old-guard behaviorists, subjective consciousness is a plain fact to most of us and the demand for new methods of inquiry is finally being met.
		Damasio and his colleagues examine patients with disruptions and interruptions in consciousness and take deep insights from these tragic lives while offering greater comfort and meaning to the sufferers.
		Damasio has obviously thought long and hard about his dysfunctional patients, and the fact that he wants to ground consciousness and emotions in neurobiology (as opposed to computers) gave me optimism and a tinge of excitement.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0156010755?v=glance (2871 words)

	Neurobiologist Antonio Damasio, April 2-3 - Knox College News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Damasio, who conducts research at the University of Iowa Medical Center, has won numerous awards for his studies of behavioral disturbances caused by diseases of the central nervous system.
		Damasio is the M.W. Van Allen Distinguished Professor and Head of Neurology at the University of Iowa Medical Center.
		Damasio has lectured worldwide, including the Wilson Lecture at Wellesley College, the Steubenbord Lectures at Cornell University, the Nobel Conference, the Karolinsky research lecture at the Nobel Forum, and the Presidential Lecture at the University of Iowa.
	www.knox.edu /x3919.xml (618 words)

	William H. Calvin, NYTimes review of Antonio R. Damasio's The Feeling of What Happens (1999)
		Damasio puts such foundational aspects in their place, and then builds atop them, all of the way up to the autobiographical self and its relation to consciousness, even considering (all too briefly) creativity and conscience.
		But Damasio’s really impressive feat is that he integrates all of this with emotions and feelings, making them play a central role in the experience of consciousness.
		Damasio’s consciousness genesis even has the "begats": "The nonconscious neural signaling of an individual organism begets the proto-self which permits core self and core consciousness, which allow for an autobiographical self, which permits extended consciousness.
	williamcalvin.com /1990s/1999NYTBR.htm (1387 words)

	The New York Review of Books: Minding the Brain
		Antonio Damasio is a distinguished neuroscientist with a flair for writ-ing about science and an enthusiasm for philosophizing.
		Yet Damasio is, to use old labels, a physiologist, an anatomist: his neuroscience is not "cognitive science" but the anatomical study of the brain and its functions.
		The problem begins with the first two sentences of Damasio's book, the weird internalist idea that the schoolteacher attends to images of her thirty children, and images of their shouts, and not to the children themselves and to what they are saying.
	www.nybooks.com /articles/17217 (4383 words)

	Amazon.com: Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain: Books: Antonio Damasio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Damasio attempts to explain the experience of feelings in anticipation of "naysayers" who contend that such things are eternal mysteries.
		The crux of Damasio's distinction is the enormously greater complexity of the biological organism.
		Antonio Damasio is Van Allen Distinguished professor at University of Iowa College of Medicine.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0156028719?v=glance (3215 words)

	hackwriters.com- Looking for Spinoza - Antonio Damasio - A Charlie Dickinson Review
		Damasio's interest for exploring the neurological basis of emotion and feeling grew when he began to see patients with injury or disease to specific parts of the brain that, for example, left them without compassion.
		Damasio stands in this same room centuries later and in moving language tells us the life story of his predecessor, who also strove to keep as one, body and soul.
		Damasio concludes, "Spinoza's God was everywhere, could not be spoken to, did not respond if prayed to, was very much in every particle of the universe, without beginning and without end.
	www.hackwriters.com /Spinoza.htm (532 words)

	Review of Descartes' Error by Antonio R. Damasio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Antonio R. Damasio is the head of the Department of Neurology at the University of Iowa College of Medicine.
		Damasio points out that three sources of knowledge are used in the decision making process: knowledge about (1) the situation, (2) possible actions you can take, and (3) the possible outcomes of those actions.
		Damasio's particular emphasis on emotion is an enlightening and unique view on the subject.
	www.psychology.uiowa.edu /students/toscano/papers/bcs230-assignment7.html (934 words)

	Presenter: Antonio R. Damasio, M.D., Ph.D.
		Antonio R. 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.
		In collaboration with Hanna Damasio, a distinguished neurologist who is independently recognized for her achievements in neuroimaging and neuroanatomy, Damasio moved lesion studies away from clinical descriptions and placed them at the service of hypothesis-driven researching.
		Damasio’s distinguished lectureships include the Tanner Lecture (Michigan), the Wilson Lecture (Wellesley), the Steubenbord Lectures (Cornell University), the Public Lecture at the Society for Neuroscience, the Aird Lectures (University of California, San Francisco), the Nobel Conference, the Karolinska Research Lecture at the Nobel Forum, and the Presidential Lecture at The University of Iowa.
	www.altruisticlove.org /docs/a_damasio.html (695 words)

	USC neuroscientist to receive Prince of Asturias prize
		Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio, director of USC's new Institute for the Study of the Brain and Creativity, will accept the 2005 Prince of Asturias Award Oct. 21 in Oviedo, Spain.
		Fundamental to the Damasios' research is their conviction that a proper understanding of emotion is crucial to one's development as a human being.
		Damasio's other honors include the Signoret Prize (2004), which he shared with Hanna Damasio, the Nonino Prize (2003), the Golden Brain Award (1995) and the American Medical Association's William Beaumont Prize (1990).
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2005-10/uosc-unt101805.php (662 words)

	Book Review: Descartes' Error by Antonio Damasio
		This case serves as a spring board for Damasio's book; he observes that Gage was most likely injured in the frontal lobes, and wonders how Gage's case would be handled by modern neurology.
		Damasio describes, at great length, how rigorously he tested the functioning of Elliot's brain; Damasio administered nearly every brain functioning examination known to modern science, yet could come up with no test that revealed anything about Elliot's condition.
		So Damasio's basic goal is to discover the connection between Gage and Elliot, and to do so, he takes a stab at some fl subjects of neurology.
	www.cs.rochester.edu /u/www/u/tetreaul/pen8a.html (863 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain - Antonio R. Damasio - ...
		Author Biography: Antonio Damasio is the Van Allen Distinguished Professor and head of the department of neurology at the University of Iowa's Medical Center and an adjunct professor at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California.
		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.
		Damasio uses all the correct terminology, which can be a bit thick at times for the non-scientist.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=qS0eCGDBWf&isbn=014303622X&itm=1 (764 words)

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