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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... thought it was time to share some of this information with the general public. The Emotional Brain provides an overview of my ideas about how emotions come from the brain. It is not meant as an all-encompassing survey of every aspect of ...
... thought it was time to share some of this information with the general public. The Emotional Brain provides an overview of my ideas about how emotions come from the brain. It is not meant as an all-encompassing survey of every aspect of ...
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... thoughts, and dreams? Why do our emotions often seem impossible to understand? Do we have control over our emotions or do they control us? Are emotions cast in neural stone by our genes or taught to the brain by the environment? Do ...
... thoughts, and dreams? Why do our emotions often seem impossible to understand? Do we have control over our emotions or do they control us? Are emotions cast in neural stone by our genes or taught to the brain by the environment? Do ...
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... thoughts about what the stimulus was with the left, but was able to transfer the emotional meaning of the stimulus over ... thought processes. However, decades later, we still had little understanding of how this might take place, and ...
... thoughts about what the stimulus was with the left, but was able to transfer the emotional meaning of the stimulus over ... thought processes. However, decades later, we still had little understanding of how this might take place, and ...
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... thoughts) do not so easily displace emotions from the mental spotlight—wishing that anxiety or depression would go away is usually not enough. • Seventh, emotions are things that happen to us rather than things we will to occur ...
... thoughts) do not so easily displace emotions from the mental spotlight—wishing that anxiety or depression would go away is usually not enough. • Seventh, emotions are things that happen to us rather than things we will to occur ...
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... thought and emotion may ultimately be re- solved, not simply by the dominance of neocortical cognitions over emotional systems, but by a more harmonious integration of reason and passion in the brain, a development that will allow ...
... thought and emotion may ultimately be re- solved, not simply by the dominance of neocortical cognitions over emotional systems, but by a more harmonious integration of reason and passion in the brain, a development that will allow ...
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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