Antonio Damasio
This biographical article relies too much on references to primary sources. Please improve this article by adding secondary or tertiary sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful. (January 2011) This biographical article is written like a résumé. Please help improve it by revising it to be neutral and encyclopedic. (January 2011) Antonio Damasio Damasio at the World Science Festival in 2008 Born (1944-02-25) February 25, 1944 (age 70) Lisbon, Portugal Nationality U.S. and Portuguese Fields Cognitive Neuroscience Institutions University of Southern California Alma mater University of Lisbon Thesis Perturbações neurológicas da linguagem e de outras funções simbólicas (1974) Influenced Catherine Malabou Notable awards Pessoa Prize (1992) Golden Brain Award (1995) Grawemeyer Award in Psychology (2014) Spouse Hanna Damasio Antonio Damasio (Portuguese: António Rosa Damásio; born February 25, 1944) is a Portuguese-American neuroscientist/neurobiologist. He is a University Professor and David Dornsife Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Southern California (where he also heads the Brain and Creativity Institute), an Adjunct Professor at the Salk Institute, and the author of several books describing his scientific thinking. "As a leading neuroscientist, Damasio has dared to speculate on neurobiological data, and has offered a theory about the relationship between human emotions, human rationality, and the underlying biology." Prior to joining USC in 2005, Damasio was M.W. Van Allen Professor and Head of Neurology at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.