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Brain Researcher Antonio Damasio
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Larry talks with renowned scientist, Antonio Damasio, whose Brain and Creativity Institute at USC is entering its second year. Damasio’s research group has begun to produce major papers. His study showing that smokers who experience damage in a specific part of the brain suddenly stop smoking will appear in Science. Damasio’s work that finds patients with certain types of frontal lobe lesions lose the ability to make compassionate moral judgments will appear in the journal, Nature. Larry talks with Damasio about his work and the goals of USC’s Brain and Creativity Institute.

…and at USC here…
The Brain and Creativity Institute is to gather new knowledge about the human emotions, decision-making, memory, and communication, from a neurological perspective, and to apply this knowledge to the solution of problems in the biomedical and sociocultural arenas.

http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/bci/contact.html

http://brainethics.wordpress.com/2006/05/08/damasio-professor-of-creativity/