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Number of page: 480
Author: Joseph LeDoux
Publisher: Penguin
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Category: Medical

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About The Author

Joseph LeDoux is the Henry and Lucy Moses Professor of Science at New York University, where he is a member of the Center for Neural Science and the Department of Psychology. He directs the Emotional Brain Institute at New York University and at the Nathan Kline Institute, and is the author ofSynaptic SelfandThe Emotional Brain. A member of the National Academy of Sciences, LeDoux lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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  ANXIOUS: Using the Brain to Understand and Treat Fear and Anxiety This is no self-help book but rather a rigorous scientific analysis of brain function, heavy on research and theory. LeDoux (Neuroscience/New York Univ.; The Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are, 2002, etc.), who directs the Emotional Brain Institute at NYU and at the Nathan Kline Institute, explains that anxiety is fear in the absence of obvious danger. Modern humans face few deadly