**Longlisted for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing AwardA 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 us and our ancestors in deep time. This page-turning survey of the whole of terrestrial evolution sheds new light on ...

**“[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 MusicA comprehensive and accessible exploration of anxiety, from a leading neuroscientist and the author of Synaptic Self**Collectively, anxiety disorders are our most prevalent psychiatric problem, affecting about forty million adults...

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, Joseph LeDoux investigates the origins of human emotions and explains that many exist as part of complex neural systems that evolved to enable us to survive.One of the principal r...

I disturbi di paura e ansia rappresentano un problema psichiatrico molto diffuso ma anche chi è considerato mentalmente e fisicamente sano può soffrire temporaneamente di terrori e preoccupazioni invalidanti. Joseph LeDoux, all’avanguardia nella ricerca in questo campo, prende in esame questi disturbi, le loro origini e le scoperte che possono aiutare chi ne soffre a tornare alla normalità. La premessa fondamentale è che paura e ansia sono esperienze che costruiamo cognitivamente. Dato che...

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 brain's synapses—are the channels through which we think, act, imagine, feel, and remember. Synapses encode the essence of personality, enabling each of us to function as a distinc...

Anxiety is the most prevalent psychiatric problem of our time. Decades of research have gone into probing its mysteries and developing treatments. But what if we’ve been thinking about fear and anxiety in the wrong way for all these years?This is the groundbreaking premise behind a wave of new research, led by the lab of renowned neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux. He believes that fear and anxiety are not innate states, simply waiting to be unleashed in the brain. Rather they are assemb...

Una domanda anima da sempre gli studi di LeDoux: come il senso di identità scaturisce dai neuroni, pur mutando di continuo il mondo circostante e i circuiti neuronali? Gli studi sui pazienti dal cervello diviso, svolti a metà degli anni Settanta, lo avevano indotto a pensare che l’io non fosse un’entità fissa ma una “narrazione” che intessiamo per dare un senso al mondo. Da allora, ne ha cercato le conferme nel cervello, studiando le emozioni e la memoria. Lo ha fatto anche ricostruendo, i...

»Dies ist ein außergewöhnliches Buch, eine tiefgründige Geschichte von uns selbst.«Eric R. Kandel, Nobelpreisträger für Medizin 2000Die Urgeschichte des Bewusstseins bei Mensch und Tier entfaltet Joseph LeDoux als überwältigendes Epos: Vier Milliarden Jahre dauerte bereits die Evolution vom Einzeller bis zum Gehirn bei Mensch und Tier. Das menschliche (Selbst)Bewusstsein eröffnet Chancen und Gefahren. Um sie zu begreifen, geht LeDoux zurück an den Beginn der Evolution auf der...

Après avoir mis en évidence le circuit neural de la peur, prise comme modèle pour étudier les bases neurales des émotions, dans The Emotional Brain, Joseph LeDoux poursuit dans Neurobiologie de la personnalité son analyse en allant plus profondément jusqu’aux constituants cellulaires de ces circuits, ou plus précisément jusqu’à leurs interconnexions cellulaires, à savoir les synapses, ces espaces entre les neurones traversés par des signaux chimiques et électriques. Mais en même temps qu’i...

« Joseph LeDoux navigue du poisson à l’homme, dans une perspective naturaliste et comparatiste. Dans ce livre, il étudie plus spécifiquement la peur, la plus commune des émotions, partagée par l’homme et l’animal, mais qui constitue également le fondement de l’humanité. Car c’est elle, vaincue, domptée, climatisée, qui permet à ce singe nu et craintif, perdu dans l’univers, de dire : je suis un homme. Ce magnifique ouvrage mérite d’être lu et conservé, car il ne fait appel à aucun jargon o...

A leading neuroscientist offers a history of the evolution of the brain from unicellular organisms to the complexity of animals and human beings todayRenowned neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux digs into the natural history of life on earth to provide a new perspective on the similarities between us and our ancestors in deep time. This page-turning survey of the whole of terrestrial evolution sheds new light on how nervous systems evolved in animals, how the brain develo...

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, Joseph LeDoux investigates the origins of human emotions and explains that many exist as part of complex neural systems that evolved to enable us to survive.One of the principal r...