Hanna Damasio

Hanna Damasio (* September 24, 1942 in Lisbon ) is a Portuguese neuroscientist and emeritus professor in California.

Life and work

Damasio made ​​in 1969 a degree in medicine, received his doctorate in Lisbon and then studied Cognitive Neuroscience at Norman Geschwind at the Aphasia Research Center in Boston. After the Carnation Revolution, they should first take a major university research, but it was not financially viable. After that, she was a professor of psychology and neurology at the University of Southern California and is head of the Dornsife Neuroimaging Center. She also conducts research at the Salk Institute in La Jolla. By 2005 she was a professor of neurology at the University of Iowa.

With the aid of computed tomography and MRI Damasio developed methods to investigate the structure of the human brain and to explore features such as language, memory and emotion.

She is married to the neuroscientist Antonio Damasio.

Awards

  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Neurological Association
  • Jean -Louis Signoret Prize in 2004 Ipsen Foundation for Social Cognition ( with her husband )
  • Cozzarelli Prize from the National Academy of Sciences in 2010 for the best contribution in biopsychology, which was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2009
  • Honorary doctorates from the Universities of Lisbon and Aachen.

Selected Publications

  • Damasio H: Human Brain Anatomy in Computerized Images. Oxford University Press, New York ² 2005.
  • Immordino - Yang MH, McColl A, Damasio H, Damasio A. Neural Correlates of admiration and compassion. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 106, no 19, 2009, pp. 8021-8026.
  • Bechara A, Tranel, D, and Damasio, H.: Characterization of the decision -making deficit of patients with ventromedial prefrontal cortex lesions. In: Brain, 132. 2009, pp. 1289, 2000.
  • Allen JS, Bruss J, Mehta S, Grabowski T, Damasio, H.: Effects of spatial transformation on regional brain volume estimates. In: NeuroImage, 42 2008, pp. 535 - 547
  • Naqvi N, Rudrauf D, Damasio H, Bechara A: Damage to the insula disrupts addiction to cigarette smoking. In: Science, Vol 315. 2007, pp. 531 - 534
  • Fiez JA, Tranel D, Seager - Frerichs D, Damasio H: Specific reading and phonological processing Deficits are associated with damage to the left frontal operculum. In: Cortex, 4, 2006, pp. 1 - 20
  • Allen JS, Bruss J, Brown CK, Damasio H: Normal neuroanatomical variation due to age: The major lobes and parcellation of the temporal region. In: Neurobiology of Aging, 26, 2005, pp. 1245-1260.
  • Tranel D, Damasio H, Denburg N, Bechara A: Does gender play a role in functional asymmetry of ventromedial prefrontal cortex? . In: Brain, 128. 2005, pp. 2872-2881.
  • Tranel D, Grabowski TJ, Lyon J, Damasio H: Naming the same entities from visual or from auditory stimulation Engages similar regions of left inferotemporal cortices. In: Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 17 (8). 2005, pp. 1293 - 305
  • Damasio H, Tranel D, Grabowski TJ, Adolphs R, Damasio AR: Neural systems behind word and concept retrieval. In: Cognition, 92 2004, pp. 179 - 229
  • Semendeferi K, Lu A, Schenker N, Damasio H: Humans and great apes share a large frontal cortex. In: Nature Neuroscience, 5, 2002, pp. 272 - 276
  • Semendeferi K, Damasio H.: The brain and its main anatomical subdivisions in living hominoids using magnetic resonance imaging. In: Journal of Human Evolution, 38 2000, pp. 317 - 332
  • Anderson SW, Bechara A, Damasio H, Tranel D, Damasio AR: . Impairment of social and moral behavior related to early damage in human prefrontal cortex. In: Nature Neuroscience, 2 1999, pp. 1032-1037.
  • Bechara A, Damasio H, Tranel D, Damasio AR: Deciding advantageously before knowing the Advantageous strategy .. In: Science, 275. 1997, pp. 1293-1294. .
  • Damasio H, Grabowski TJ, Tranel D, Hichwa R, Damasio AR: A neural basis for lexical retrieval: in: Nature, 380. 1996, pp. 499 - 505.
  • Damasio H, Grabowski T, Frank R, Galaburda AM, Damasio AR: The return of Phineas Gage: Clues about the brain from the skull of a famous patient. In: Science, 264. 1994, pp. 1102-1105.
  • Damasio H, Frank R. Three-dimensional in vivo mapping of brain lesions in humans .. In: Archives of Neurology, 49, 1992, p 137 - 143
  • Damasio AR, Damasio H: Brain and Language. In: Scientific American, 267. 1992, pp. 89 - 95
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