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Antonio Damasio is a Portuguese-American neuroscientist at USC known for the somatic marker hypothesis, which links emotion and bodily states to reasoning and decision-making. His research connects consciousness, feeling, and the physiology of the body.

Neurotransmitters

Drawn from this author's materials.

Dopamine
Serotonin (5-HT)

Books

Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain
Looking for Spinoza
Self Comes to Mind
The Feeling of What Happens

Other materials

Emotion, decision making and the orbitofrontal cortex (research)
The Iowa Gambling Task and the somatic marker hypothesis: some questions and answers (research)
The somatic marker hypothesis and the possible functions of the prefrontal cortex (research)