{"title":"Antonio Damasio","description":"Antonio Damasio, a neurologist and neuroscientist, is at the University of Southern California, where he directs a new brain research institute dedicated to the study of emotion and creativity. He is also an adjunct professor at the Salk Institute. The recipient of numerous awards (several shared with his wife Hanna Damasio, also a neurologist and neuroscientist), he is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the author of two other widely acclaimed books, The Feeling of What Happens and Looking for Spinoza.","products":[{"product_id":"the-feeling-of-what-happens-body-and-emotion-in-the-making-of-consciousness-paperback","title":"The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness, neuroscientist Antonio Damasio, director of UCLA's Brain and Creativity Institute, presents \"the first truly compelling neurobiological account of the self...a remarkable work of intellectual daring\" (Nature).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWidley praised for his innovative scientific thinking and elegant writing, Antonio Damasio, the international bestselling author of Descartes' Error achieves an understanding of consciousness by asking and answering profound questions: How is it we know what we know? How is it that our conscious and private minds have a sense of self? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this groundbreaking book, Damasio -- a renowned and revered scientist and clinician who spent decades following amnesiacs down hospital corridors, waiting for comatose patients to awaken, and devising ingenious research using PET scans to piece together the great puzzle of consciousness -- explores the biological roots of sentient awareness and its role in survival. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConsciousness is the feeling of what happens-our mind noticing the body's reaction to the world and responding to that experience. Without our bodies there can be no consciousness, which is at heart a mechanism for survival that engages body, emotion, and mind in the glorious spiral of human life. Linking body and emotion in an arresting and original study of what it is to be human, The Feeling of What Happens \"will change your experience of yourself\" (The New York Times).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Both Descartes Error and The Feeling of What Happens are essential reading. They are ground-breaking classics of psychology and neuroscience.\"--Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376800989407,"sku":"9780156010757","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/rtR3Tr7ugJ9780156010757.webp?v=1789225372"},{"product_id":"looking-for-spinoza-joy-sorrow-and-the-feeling-brain-paperback","title":"Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \"clear, accessbile\" investigation into the philosophical and scientific foundations of human life, from one of the world's leading neuroscientists (\u003cem\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eJoy, sorrow, jealousy, and awe--these and other feelings are the stuff of our daily lives. In the seventeenth century, the philosopher Spinoza devoted much of his life's work examining how these emotions supported human survival, yet hundreds of years later the biological roots of what we feel remain a mystery. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAntonio Damasio--whose earlier books explore rational behavior and the notion of the self--rediscovers a man whose work ran counter to all the thinking of his day, pairing Spinoza's insights with his own innovative scientific research to help us understand what we're made of, and what we're here for.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoy, sorrow, jealousy, and awe--these and other feelings are the stuff of our daily lives. Thought to be too private for science to explain and not essential for understanding cognition, they have largely been ignored. But not by Spinoza, and not by Antonio Damasio. Here, in a humane work of science, Damasio draws on his innovative research and on his experience with neurological patients to examine how feelings and the emotions that underlie them support human survival and enable the spirit's greatest creations.\u003cbr\u003eLooking for Spinoza reveals the biology of our sophisticated survival mechanisms. It rediscovers a thinker whose work prefigures modern neuroscience, not only in his emphasis on emotions and feelings, but also in his refusal to separate mind and body. Together, the scientist and the philosopher help us understand what we're made of, and what we're here for. Based on laboratory investigations but moving beyond those to society and culture, \"Looking for Spinoza\" is a master work of science and writing. \u003cbr\u003eAntonio Damasio, widely recognized as one of the world's leading neuroscientists, has for decades been investigating the neurobiological foundations of human life. In \"Descartes' Error\" he explored the importance of emotion in rational behavior, and in \"The Feeling of What Happens\" he developed the neurobiology of the self. Damasio's new book on feeling and emotion offers unexpected grounds for optimism about our survival and the human condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn clear, accessible and at times eloquent prose, Damasio is outlining nothing less than a new vision of the human soul, integrating body and mind, thought and feeling, individual survival and altruism, humanity and nature, ethics and evolution. -SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE \u003cbr\u003eJOY, SORROW, JEALOUSY, AND AWE-these and other feelings are the stuff of our daily lives. Thought to be too private for science to explain and not essential for understanding cognition, they have largely been ignored. But not by Spinoza, and not by Antonio Damasio. In Looking for Spinoza, Damasio, one of the world's leading neuroscientists, draws on his innovative research and on his experience with neurological patients to examine how feelings and the emotions that underlie them support human survival and enable the spirit's greatest creations. Looking for Spinoza rediscovers a thinker whose work prefigures modern neuroscience, not only in his emphasis on emotions and feelings, but in his refusal to separate mind and body. Together, the scientist and the philosopher help us understand what we're made of, and what we're here for. \u003cbr\u003e\"Exceptionally engaging and profoundly gratifying . . . Achieves a unique combination of scientific exposition, historical discovery and deep personal statement regarding the human condition.\" -NATURE \u003cbr\u003eAntonio 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. The recipient of numerous awards, he is a member\u003cbr\u003eof the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Damasio's books are read and taught in universities worldwide.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51377637032159,"sku":"9780156028714","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/tdG6H4Qpp19780156028714.webp?v=1789236253"},{"product_id":"descartes-error-emotion-reason-and-the-human-brain-paperback","title":"Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"An ambitious and meticulous foray into the nature of being.\" -- The Boston Globe \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA landmark exploration of the relationship between emotion and reason \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSince Descartes famously proclaimed, \"I think, therefore I am,\" science has often overlooked emotions as the source of a person's true being. Even modern neuroscience has tended, until recently, to concentrate on the cognitive aspects of brain function, disregarding emotions. This attitude began to change with the publication of \u003cb\u003eDescartes' Error\u003c\/b\u003e in 1995. Antonio Damasio--\"one of the world's leading neurologists\" (\u003cb\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/b\u003e)--challenged traditional ideas about the connection between emotions and rationality. In this wondrously engaging book, Damasio takes the reader on a journey of scientific discovery through a series of case studies, demonstrating what many of us have long suspected: emotions are not a luxury, they are essential to rational thinking and to normal social behavior.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlthough I cannot tell for certain what sparked my interest in the neural underpinnings of reason, I do know when I became convinced that the traditional views on the nature of rationality could not be correct. Thus begins a book that takes the reader on a journey of discovery, from the story of Phineas Gage, the famous nineteenth-century case of behavioral change that followed brain damage, to the contemporary recreation of Gage's brain; and from the doubts of a young neurologist to a testable hypothesis concerning the emotions and their fundamental role in rational human behavior. Drawing on his experiences with neurological patients affected by brain damage (his laboratory is recognized worldwide as the foremost center for the study of such patients), Antonio Damasio shows how the absence of emotion and feeling can break down rationality. In the course of explaining how emotions and feelings contribute to reason and to adaptive social behavior, Damasio also offers a novel perspective on what emotions and feelings actually are: a direct sensing of our own body states, a link between the body and its survival-oriented regulations, on the one hand, and consciousness, on the other. Descartes' Error leads us to conclude that human organisms are endowed from the very beginning with a spirited passion for making choices, which the social mind can use to build rational behavior.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51379000410335,"sku":"9780143036227","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/LeXBz43fT9780143036227.webp?v=1789264970"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/antonio-damasio.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}