The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional LifeWhat 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 researchers profiled in Daniel Goleman's Emotional Intelligence, LeDoux is a leading authority in the field of neural science. In this provocative book, he explores the brain mechanisms underlying our emotions -- mechanisms that are only now being revealed. |
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... problems that animals face. In a similar vein, the various classes of emotions are mediated by separate neural systems that have evolved for different reasons. The system we use to defend against danger is different from the one we use ...
... problems that animals face. In a similar vein, the various classes of emotions are mediated by separate neural systems that have evolved for different reasons. The system we use to defend against danger is different from the one we use ...
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... problem in mathematics. States of consciousness occur when the system responsible for awareness becomes privy to the activity occurring in unconscious processing systems. What differs between the state of being afraid and the state of ...
... problem in mathematics. States of consciousness occur when the system responsible for awareness becomes privy to the activity occurring in unconscious processing systems. What differs between the state of being afraid and the state of ...
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... problems, to a large extent, reflect a breakdown of emotional order. Emotions can have both useful and pathological consequences. As emotional beings, we think of emotions as conscious experiences. But when we begin probing emotion in ...
... problems, to a large extent, reflect a breakdown of emotional order. Emotions can have both useful and pathological consequences. As emotional beings, we think of emotions as conscious experiences. But when we begin probing emotion in ...
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... problem of emotional consciousness, and the relation of emotion to the rest of the mind (Chapter 9). I con- clude with the hypothesis, based on trends in brain evolution, that the struggle between thought and emotion may ultimately be ...
... problem of emotional consciousness, and the relation of emotion to the rest of the mind (Chapter 9). I con- clude with the hypothesis, based on trends in brain evolution, that the struggle between thought and emotion may ultimately be ...
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... of this puzzling part of the mental terrain by peering at it from inside the nervous system. But I don't intend to ignore the psychology of emotion. Psychologists have had lots of insights. The problem is deciding which Souls on Ice 23.
... of this puzzling part of the mental terrain by peering at it from inside the nervous system. But I don't intend to ignore the psychology of emotion. Psychologists have had lots of insights. The problem is deciding which Souls on Ice 23.
Contents
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THE HOLY GRAIL | 73 |
THE WAY WE WERE | 104 |
A FEW DEGREES OF SEPARATION | 138 |
REMEMBRANCE OF EMOTIONS PAST | 179 |
WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE | 225 |
ONCE MORE WITH FEELINGS | 267 |
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The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life Joseph Ledoux Limited preview - 1998 |
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