num_pages: 313
description: Drawing on his experiences with neurological patients affected by brain damage, the author shows how the absence of emotion and feeling can break down rationality.
language: English
title: Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain
titlecomplete: Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain
genres: Philosophy, Emotion, Psychology, Biology, Neuroscience, Science, Brain, Medicine, Nonfiction, Academic
ratings_count: 8949
publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons