The Feeling Of What Happens Av Antonio Damasio

From one of the world's leading neuroscientists; a succinct, illuminating, wholly engaging investigation of the phenomenon of consciousness and its relation to life.

Joy, sorrow, jealousy and awe - these and other feelings are the stuff of our daily lives. In this book Dr. Damasio draws on his innovative research and on his experience with neurological patients to examine how feelings and the emotions that underlie...

<p><b>¿Will give pleasure to anyone interested in original thinking about the brain¿Breathtakingly original¿ <i>Financial Times </i></b><br><br><b>The trailblazing investigation of a question that has...

In the centuries since Descartes famously proclaimed, ''I think, therefore I am,'' science has often overlooked emotions as the source of a person''s true being. Even modern neuroscience has tended until recently to concentrate...