BrainMind Summit - Consciousness Day hosted at Stanford
Antonio Damasio, MD, PhD
Dornsife Professor of Neuroscience, Psychology & Philosophy, Director, Brain and Creativity Institute, University of Southern California
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Antonio Damasio is Dornsife Professor of Neuroscience, Psychology and Philosophy, and Director of the Brain and Creativity Institute at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Damasio has made seminal contributions to the understanding of brain processes underlying emotions, feelings, and consciousness. His work on the role of affect in decision-making made a major impact in neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy. He is one of the most eminent psychologists of the modern era and one of the most cited scientists worldwide.
His most recent book is: The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures (2018).
Damasio is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has received numerous prizes, among them the International Freud Medal, the Grawemeyer Award, the Honda Prize, and the Asturias Prize in Science and Technology.
He holds Honorary Doctorates from several leading Universities, e.g. École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and Sorbonne (Université Paris Descartes). Damasio’s books, Descartes’ Error, The Feeling of What Happens, Looking for Spinoza and Self Comes to Mind, are taught in universities worldwide.
Daniel Siegel, MD
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, UCLA School of Medicine, Executive Director, Mindsight Institute
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Dr. Siegel is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine and the founding Co-Director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center at UCLA. An award-winning educator, he is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and recipient of several honorary fellowships. Dr. Siegel is also the Executive Director of the Mindsight Institute, an educational organization, which offers online learning and in-person seminars that focus on how the development of mindsight in individuals, families and communities can be enhanced by examining the interface of human relationships and basic biological processes. His psychotherapy practice includes children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families. He serves as the Medical Director of the LifeSpan Learning Institute and on the Advisory Board of the Blue School in New York City, which has built its curriculum around Dr. Siegel’s Mindsight approach. His latest bestselling book is called Aware: The Science and Practice of Presence.