Nelson Mauro Maldonato è psichiatra e professore ordinario presso il Dipartimento di Neuroscienze, Scienze Riproduttive e Odontostomatologiche dell’Università di Napoli Federico II. Dirige il Programma di Psicopatologia Clinica dell’Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Federico II.
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Nelson Mauro Maldonato is clearly a free-ranging thinker, but his own research field is cognitive neuroscience, and he devotes a thorough and lucid chapter to the biological foundations of decision making. He dexterously surveys the latest on imaging technologies and the brain anatomy underlying emotion and judgment, and he essays the promising new fields of neuroeconomics, neuroethics, and neuroaesthetics. […]
British Journal of Psychiatry
by Hugo Critchley
This is a concise but detailed book which covers a lot of ground. Nelson Mauro Maldonato is an academic psychiatrist and neuroscientist with a strong track record in motor control and decision-making. This book links abstract symbolic thought and decision-making to evolutionary origins in motor control. The text is generally accessible to inquisitive readers in addition to the target audience of neuroscientists, psychiatrists and philosophers of mind. […]