Understanding And Treating Fear And Anxiety
Tuesday, February 21, 2017
6:00-7:30 p.m.
The Rifkind Room in NAC 6/316
Joseph LeDoux - New York University
Eminent neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux (New York University) will speak about his new book Anxious: Using the Brain to Understand and Treat Fear and Anxiety (Penguin 2015). LeDoux’s research is primarily focused on the biological underpinnings of emotion and memory, especially brain mechanisms related to fear and anxiety.
Joseph LeDoux is a neuroscientist whose research is primarily focused on the biological underpinnings of emotion and memory, especially brain mechanisms related to fear and anxiety. LeDoux is the Henry and Lucy Moses Professor of Science at New York University, and director of the Emotional Brain Institute, a collaboration between NYU and New York State with research sites at NYU and at the Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research in Orangeburg, New York. He is the author of many works, including The Emotional Brain (1996), The Synaptic Self (2002), and Anxious: Using the Brain to Understand and Treat Fear and Anxiety (2015). He is a fellow of the American Academy of Sciences and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. In addition, he is the lead singer and songwriter in the band The Amygdaloids.