Episode #1344
Joseph LeDoux
Books mentioned
Outliers
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The Emotional Brain
Mentioned by Joseph LeDoux · at 00:47:34 · ▶︎ Watch this moment on YouTube (approximate)
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Anxious
Mentioned by Joseph LeDoux · at 01:06:05 · ▶︎ Watch this moment on YouTube (approximate)
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Neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux explores the evolutionary development of conscious self-awareness and survival circuits, including how they produce fear and anxiety. He and Joe Rogan discuss language, culture, creativity, thrill-seeking, narratives, anxiety treatments, exercise, meditation, urbanization, climate change, and LeDoux’s books and music projects.
What they talked about
- Amygdala not a fear center
- Consciousness as narrative generation
- Four billion year history of life
- Fear vs anxiety distinction
- Emotions as byproducts of language
- Subliminal exposure therapy for phobias
- Exercise alleviating anxiety
- Split-brain patients and left-hemisphere narratives
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