DESCARTES' ERROR
Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain
Antonio R. Damasio
Grosset/Putnam, 1994
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
Readers of this book will learn physiological and psychological evidence connecting emotion, reason, and the brain.
'Reason may not be as pure as most of us think it is or wish it were... emotions and feelings may not be intruders in the bastion of reason at all: they may be enmeshed in its networks, for worse AND for better...the essence of a feeling may not be an elusive mental quality attached to an object, but rather the direct perception of a specific landscape: that of the body...the body, as represented in the brain, may constitute the indispensable frame of reference for the neural processes we experience as the mind.' —Antonio Damasio
Antonio R. Damasio, M.D., Ph.D., is M. W. Van Allen Professor of Neurology and Head of the Department of Neurology at the University of Iowa College of Medicine in Iowa City and Adjunct Professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California. He is internationally recognized for his research on the neurology of vision, memory, and language, and also for his contributions to the elucidation of Alzheimer's disease. He is a member both of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. He is, with his wife, recipient of the Pessoa Prize and the Ipsen Prize. He is also the author of THE FEELING OF WHAT HAPPENS.
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