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❤️Antonio Damasio

Feeling, self and somatic markers in decision circuits.

Also called: somatic marker

Antonio Damasio
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emotion in reasonFocus
78/100Research
73/100Awareness
64/100Complexity
84/100Clinical
74/100Debate

Antonio Damasio sits at the centre of emotion in reason — studied across molecules, circuits, behaviour and clinic.

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  • Research78
  • Awareness73
  • Complexity64
  • Clinical weight84
  • Plasticity58
  • Live debate74

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Sources & research

  1. Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human BrainDamasio AR · 1994 · Putnam
  2. The somatic marker hypothesis and the possible functions of the prefrontal cortexDamasio AR · 1996 · Philosophical Transactions BDOIPubMed

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