BrainMind Summit hosted at Stanford

Antonio Damasio, MD, PhD

Dornsife Professor of Neuroscience, Psychology & Philosophy, Director, Brain and Creativity Institute, USC

Antonio Damasio is David Dornsife Professor of Neuroscience, Professor of Psychology, Professor of Philosophy, and Director and Founder of the Brain and Creativity Institute at the University of Southern California. He is also an adjunct professor at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California. Damasio has made seminal contributions to the understanding of brain processes underlying emotions, feelings, decision-making and consciousness. His work has had a major influence on current understanding of the neural systems which underlie memory, language, and consciousness. He is the author of Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain, which was adapted into a musical composition performed by Yo-Yo Ma at the American Museum of Natural History.

Dr. Damasio is the author of numerous scientific articles and his research has received continuous federal funding for 30 years. He is the recipient of many awards: the Grawemeyer Award, 2014; the Honda Prize, 2010; the Asturias Prize in Science and Technology, 2005; and the Signoret Prize, 2004, which he shared with his wife Hanna Damasio. 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, the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. He has been named “Highly Cited Researcher” by the Institute for Scientific Information.