Joseph Ledoux: 8 books
Anxious
Using the Brain to Understand and Treat Fear and Anxiety
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
**“[Anxious] helps to explain and prevent the kinds of debilitating anxieties all of us face in this increasingly stressful world.” —Daniel J. Levitin, author of The Organized Mind and This Is Your Brain On Music
A comprehensive and accessible exploration of anxiety, from a leading neuroscientist...
The Deep History of Ourselves
The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2019
A leading neuroscientist offers a history of the evolution of the brain from unicellular organisms to the complexity of animals and human beings today
Renowned neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux digs into the natural history of life on earth to provide a new perspective on the similarities between...
The Emotional Brain
The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
What happens in our brains to make us feel fear, love, hate, anger, joy? Do we control our emotions, or do they control us? Do animals have emotions? How can traumatic experiences in early childhood influence adult behavior, even though we have no conscious memory of them? In The Emotional Brain,...
Synaptic Self
How Our Brains Become Who We Are
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2003
In 1996 Joseph LeDoux's The Emotional Brain presented a revelatory examination of the biological bases of our emotions and memories. Now, the world-renowned expert on the brain has produced with a groundbreaking work that tells a more profound story: how the little spaces between the neurons—the...
Angst
Wie wir Furcht und Angst begreifen und therapieren können, wenn wir das Gehirn verstehen
Language: German
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Angst schränkt ein, hindert, lähmt. Doch sie kann auch beschützen, beflügeln und helfen. Wo liegt die Grenze zwischen der hellen und der dunklen Seite der Angst und wie kann man sie überwinden? Der renommierte Neurowissenschaftler und Bestsellerautor Joseph LeDoux nimmt die Angst vor der Angst,...
On the Frontiers of Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience
Essays in Honor of Eric R. Kandel
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Building crucial bridges between psychoanalysis and the neurosciences, this compelling volume brings together prominent authorities from multiple disciplines. The volume highlights the contributions of Eric R. Kandel, whose seminal articles helped launch the fledgling field of neuropsychoanalysis....
by Michael S. Gazzaniga, Joseph E. LeDoux
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
In this book we are trying to illuminate the persistent and nag ging questions of how mind, life, and the essence of being relate to brain mechanisms. We do that not because we have a commit ment to bear witness to the boring issue of reductionism but be cause we want to know more about what...
by Joseph E. LeDoux, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
This volume presents cutting-edge theory and research on emotions as constructed events rather than fixed, essential entities. It provides a thorough introduction to the assumptions, hypotheses, and scientific methods that embody psychological constructionist approaches. Leading scholars examine the...