A pioneer in brain research, primarily responsible for our understanding of how fear and anxiety operate in the brain, NYU professor Joseph LeDoux's book is considered a classic in the field.

1. The Enchanted Loom
Teasing sturdy threads from
neuroscience masterworks

2. Teasing 10
threads from
Joseph LeDoux’…

3. Thread 1:
The psychological study of emotions has
been extremely valuable, but an approach
where
emotions
are studied
as brain
function is
far more
powerful.
(pg. 12)

4. Thread 2:
When fear becomes anxiety, desire gives
way to greed, or annoyance turns to anger,
anger to hatred, friendship to envy, love to
obsession, pleasure to addiction, our
emotions
start
working
against
us.
(pg. 20)

5. Thread 3:
It seems clear that
much of mental life
occurs outside of
conscious awareness.
(pg. 33 )

6. Thread 4:
The term cognitive unconscious merely
implies what the mind does goes on out-
side of awareness. The dynamic uncon-
scious is a darker, more malevolent
place where
memories
are shipped
to do mental
dirty work.
(pg. 30 )

7. Thread 5:
It is difficult to imagine emotions in the
absence of their bodily expressions. Fear
feels different
from anger or
love because it
has a different
physiological
signature.
(pg. 44 )

8. Thread 6:
Specific emotions
are produced by
the combination
of artificial arousal
and social cues.
Emotions, in short,
result from
the cognitive
interpretation
of situations.
(pg. 48 )

9. Thread 7:
In order for behavior to occur, muscles have
to move. The reasons that facial expressions
of particular emotions look the same in dif-
ferent people
is because
they are con-
tracting or
relaxing the
same or similar
muscle groups.
(pg. 121)

10. Thread 8:
Adrenal hormones help the body deal with
stress. If the stress is prolonged those hor-
mones can begin
to have patho-
logical conse-
quences, inter-
fering with cog-
nitive function
and even causing
brain damage.
(pg. 133)

11. Thread 9:
Memory is likely to be enhanced by mild
stress, but may be interfered with if the
stress is sufficiently
intense and pro-
longed to raise the
level of adrenal
steroids to the
point where the
hippocampus is
adversely affected.
(pg. 244)

12. Thread 10:
One of the hallmarks
of frontal lobe dam-
age in humans is
perseveration,
the inability
to stop doing
something once
it is no longer
appropriate.
(pg. 249)

13. Thread 11:
Working memory allows us to know that
the “here and now” is “here” and is hap-
pening “now.” This
insight underlies the
notion that conscious-
ness is the awareness
of what is in working
memory.
(pg. 278)

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TheEnchantedLoom@gmail.com
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