This book examines our emotions from a biological rather than psychological perspective. It is a provocative far-reaching account of what our emotions are, how they operate in the brain, and how they influence our lives. The author presents some unexpected findings about such psychological disorders as anxiety, phobias, and panic attacks.
LeDoux discusses how both physical and experiential factors affect how our brains develop and who we are. A readable look at the state of neuroscience from a prominent member of the field.
Young Gary, who has literary ambitions, comes of age in the ever-popular Minnesota town of Lake Wobegon in Garrison Keillor's sort-of-sequel to WOBEGON BOY.
This book examines our emotions from a biological rather than psychological perspective. It is a provocative far-reaching account of what our emotions are, how they operate in the brain, and how they influence our lives. The author presents some unexpected findings about such psychological disorders as anxiety, phobias, and panic attacks.
Each living creature exists as a unit, as self. Understanding the self, then, should be a major goal of scientific research. This work constitutes the proceedings of a New York Academy of Sciences conference held in September 2002. It seeks to take stock of understanding of the self and its relation to the brain, and consider future directions for ...
Post-traumatic stress disorder is a psychiatric illness that can occur in anyone who has experienced a life-threatening or violent event. The trauma can be due to war, terrorism, torture, natural disasters, violence, or rape. In PTSD the brain areas that are likely to be affected are the hippocampus (memory), amygdala (fear association), the ...
Researchers in both the brain and the cognitive sciences are attempting to understand the mind. They should be natural allies, but neuroscientists and cognitive psychologists tend to work in isolation. Brain and Mind represents a pioneering attempt to bring them together. The editors' objective was to force scientists who are working on the same ...
Joseph Le Doux believes that the synapses - the little spaces between the neurons in our brains - are the key to everything the brain does. They are the channels of communication by which we think, act, imagine, feel and remember. But synapses do more. They also allow interactions between mental processes, allowing us to remember the important ...
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