EMOTIONAL BRAIN --- THE MYSTERIOUS UNDERPINNINGS OF EMOTIONAL LIFE by Joseph LeDoux, A Touchstone Book/Simon & Schuster, 1996
QUOTE (Cover Annotation)
"This book is a superb guide to that ultimate frontier in understanding our emotional life, the brain." by Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence and Ecological Intelligence.
PREFACE (p9-19)
The book was written to be accessible to readers not trained in science or versed in scientific jargon. It provides an overview of ideas about how emotions come from the brain. It is not meant as an all-encompassing survey of every aspect of how the human brain produces emotions.
The book focuses on how the brain detects and responds to emotionally arousing stimuli. Also, it explains how "emotional learning" occurs and emotional memories are formed, and how our conscious emotional feelings emerge from unconscious processes.
1) What's love got to do with it (p11-21)
2) Souls on ice (p22-41)
3) Blood, sweat, and tears (p42-72)
4) The "Holy Grail" (p73-103)
5) The way we were (p104-137)
6) A few degrees if separation (p138-179)
7) Remembrance of emotions past (p179-224)
8) Where the wild things are (p225-266)
9) Once more, with feelings (p267-303)
NOTES (p304-334)
BIBLIOGRAPHY (p335-372)
INDEX (p373-384)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR (back cover
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Joseph LeDoux is the Henry and Lucy Moses Professor of Science in the Center for Neural Science at New York University. He was awarded both a Merit Award and a Research Scientist Development Award from the National Institute of Mental Health, as well as grants from the National Science Foundation and the American Heart Association.
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