USC professor Antonio Damasio found patients, who had brain damage in an area that helped to process emotions (prefrontal cortex), struggled to make basic decisions when choosing between alternatives.

A nice balance of popular science but also with some scientific depth. Leonard Mlodinow is a physicist, which demonstrates how multidisciplinary the field of neuroscience is. António Damásio, a ...

In a complex world, rational decision-making becomes insufficient, as the consequences of choices are often unpredictable.