Sponsored message
Audience-funded nonprofit news
radio tower icon laist logo
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
Subscribe
  • Listen Now Playing Listen
AirTalk

Brain Researcher Antonio Damasio

Larry talks with renowned scientist, Antonio Damasio, whose Brain and Creativity Institute at USC is entering its second year. Damasio's research group has begun to produce major papers. His study showing that smokers who experience damage in a specific part of the brain suddenly stop smoking will appear in Science. Damasio's work that finds patients with certain types of frontal lobe lesions lose the ability to make compassionate moral judgments will appear in the journal, Nature. Larry talks with Damasio about his work and the goals of USC's Brain and Creativity Institute.