Antonio Damasio was born in Portugal, completed his medical degree and doctorate at the University of Lisbon, and moved to the US in 1976 to pursue his work in cognitive neuroscience. He is now Van Allen Distinguished Professor and head of the neurology department at the University of Iowa College of Medicine, and adjunct professor at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California. His everyday work as a neuroscientist working with people with damaged brains and his humanist perspective are equally crucial to the ideas he explores in Descartes’ Error, The Feeling of What Happens, and Looking for Spinoza.
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