3 Quotes & Sayings By Antonio Damasio

Antonio Damasio is a neuroscientist at the University of Southern California. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Iowa in Neuroscience, and then completed his post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School. He has won awards for his work on the somatosensory cortices of macaque monkeys, and his research has been reported in "New Scientist," "Nature," "Wall Street Journal," "Scientific American," and other publications Read more

Dr. Damasio's research has been supported by the National Institutes of Health, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, The MacArthur Foundation, and others. He is also an adjunct professor at USC, where he teaches courses on emotion, psychopathology, and cognitive neuroscience.

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Consciousness permits us to develop the instruments of culture - morality and justice, religion, art, economics and politics, science and technology. Those instruments allow us some measure of freedom in the confrontation with nature. Antonio Damasio
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When you experience the emotion of sadness, there will be changes in facial expression, and your body will be closed in, withdrawn. There are also changes in your heart, your guts: they slow down. And there are hormonal changes. Antonio Damasio