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Antonio Damasio is University Professor; David Dornsife Professor of Neuroscience, Neurology and Psychology; and director of the Brain and Creativity Institute at the University of Southern California [www.usc.edu/bci]. He is the author of numerous scientific articles and the recipient of many awards, including the Asturias Prize in Science and Technology; the Honda Prize; and the Pessoa and Signoret prizes. Damasio 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 holds honorary...

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Self Comes to Mind
Constructing the Conscious Brain
Written by Antonio Damasio

Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 6, 2012
Price: $15.95

A leading neuroscientist explores with authority, with imagination, and with unparalleled mastery how the brain constructs the mind and how the brain makes that mind conscious.

Antonio Damasio has spent the past thirty years researching and and revealing how the brain works. Here, in his most ambitious and stunning work yet, he... Read more >

Self Comes to Mind
Constructing the Conscious Brain
Written by Antonio Damasio

Format: eBook, 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 9, 2010
Price: $13.99

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