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(December 21, 2020) The Dissenter:#407 Joseph LeDoux: The Deep History of Ourselves

(December 18, 2020) The Origins Podcast: Joseph LeDoux - The Origins Podcast with Lawrence Krauss. Lawrence joins neuroscientist and author Joseph LeDoux in his office at New York University to discuss human consciousness (including its evolutionary development), the difficulties of distinguishing behavior from emotions, his latest book The Deep History of Ourselves: The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains, and more.

(November 30, 2020) Emotions, Consciousness, and Psychotherapy - Joe LeDoux with Pete Kelly on podcast: Thoughts on Record

(November 17, 2020) Decodingsuperhuman.com: Is There Hope for Anxiety? with Dr. Joseph LeDoux

(November 10, 2020). theboar.org: A lab-grown brain: a mind of its own?

- this article quoted LeDoux's view on conciouness.

(November 1, 2020) Press Reader(Book review in Italian):Quel salto verso la coscienza. Joseph LeDoux considera le capacità mentali degli esseri umani come l'esito di una lunghissima storia evolutiva

(October 22, 2020) LeDoux's book "THE DEEP HISTORY OF OURSELVES" in Italian is available now.

(Octobr 22, 2020) “Sing for Science,” a New Music Podcast That Hits All the Right Notes: In an upcoming episode, Joe LeDoux will join pop duo Aly and AJ to explore the science of panic through their song “Attack of Panic”.

(October 7, 2020) "Big October Winners: CRISPR, Alteryx, NVIDIA, Quidel" - by Kevin Cook. LeDoux's book ' The Deep History of Ourselves ' was cited in this article.

(October 6, 2020) "As Soon As There Is Life, There Is Danger" -   Vidoe: Joseph LeDoux's virtual lecture in Copernicus Festival (Kraków, Poland in June 10, 2020).   

(September 30, 2020 ) Tygodnik Powszechny: Jestesmy dinozaurami - An Interview with Joseph LeDoux[Polish] -By  Maria Hawranek [Google translation]

(September 21, 2020) Joe LeDoux's recent articles on Current Biology

(September 10, 2020) TheBYBPodcast: The Emotional Brain. In this interview with The Lullas, Joe LeDoux discusses how the field of neuroscience has changed, some of his previous research, as well as the role of the amygdala in the brain.

(September 9, 2020) Leonard Lopate with Joe LeDoux on WBAI Radio: Joe LeDoux discusses his book The Deep History of Ourselves

(September 4, 2020) stitcher.com: Consciousness and Mental Time Travel - An interview with Joe LeDoux on This Is Your Brain With Dr. Phil Stieg .

(August 10, 2020) geneticliteracyproject.org: The article "Are we any closer to understanding what consciousness is?" quotes LeDoux's view on emotion and consciousness

(August 6, 2020) mindbodygreen.com: Joe LeDoux's research is referenced in 'How To Protect Your Mental Health While Taking Climate Action, Experts Explain'

(July 29, 2020) pbs.org: ‘Caution fatigue’ and the stress behind living through a pandemic - This PBS article cited Joe LeDoux's work.

(July 26, 2020)LiveScience.com: The article "What is consciousness? " cites Joe LeDoux and his book 'The Deep History of Ourselves'

(July 21, 2020) jjie.org:Joe LeDoux is quoted in this artile 'Collective Decision-making Can Neutralize Politics of Fear'.

(July 17, 2020)ACBS: “As soon as there was life, there was danger” (PPT) - Joe LeDoux's presentation (Zoom) at ACBS world conference on Friday, July, 2020

(July 13, 2020) publico.pt(Portuguse): Joseph LeDoux Interview “All animals are selfish for survival. But we humans created selfishness in new, more cruel ways ” by Claudia Carvalho Silva (Google translation)

(July 3, 2020) Rivisteweb (Italian): Intervista a Joseph LeDoux - Intelligent systems; ISSN: 1120-9550; The Mill. Article; 1/2020, April; pp. 197-202; DOI: 10.1422 / 96289. by M Viola

(June 24, 2020) dpu:Alla ricerca dell’uomo tra mente e corpo - Intervista a Joseph E. LeDoux (Google Translate: In search of man between mind and body. Interview with Joseph E. LeDoux)

(June 19, 2020)goodbeerhunting.com: Good Beer Hunting quotes Joesph LeDoux in their 'Read. Look. Drink.' column.

(June 8, 2020) Current Biology: "Thoughtful Feelings" - an overview of LeDoux's ideas about what emotions are.

(June 2, 2020)circuloleitores.pt: LeDoux's book THE DEEP HISTORY OF OURSELVES in Portugal is available now.

(May 28, 2020) psychologytoday.com: COVID-19: As Ever, the Human Advantage Is Cooperation cites The Deep History of Ourselves in support of cooperation during COVID.

(May 24, 2020)thegreatcoursesdaily.com: COVID-19: As Ever, the Human Advantage Is Cooperationcites Joe LeDoux's .

(May 19 2020) timesunion.com: The New York State Writers Institute of the University of Albanyfeatures advice from authors, writers, and poets, including Joseph LeDoux: Neurobiologist / musician Joseph LeDoux on anxiety and fear

(May 13, 2020) wired.com: Joe LeDoux is quoted in this article “Why Humans Totally Freak Out When They Get Lost" by Michael Bond.

(May 12, 2020) NYU Arts and Science will be hosting a follow up conversation around the relationship between humans and artificial intelligence, "Minds and Machines: Reloaded," as a virtual event. Joseph LeDoux will be speaking at this event on Friday.

(Apr.23, 2020) Joseph LeDoux is quoted in CNN article: Why facing our feelings is essential for tackling our climate crisis by By Renée Lertzman.

(Apr.14, 2020) Consciousness Live! S3 Ep8 -Discussion with Joe LeDoux and David Rosenthal - Richard Brown with Josep leDoux and David Rosenthal on Richard's Consciousness

(Apr.11, 2020) thriveglobal.com: Fear Is Our Public Friend and Our Private Foe - How It Helps Us and Hurts Us. By James Garrett, Founder at Brain. "....According to fear researcher Prof. Joseph LeDoux, you “freeze first; flee if you can; and fight if you must.” So freezing is our default response to fear. It’s our brain’s go-to strategy..... "

(Mar.18, 2020) straight.com: COVID-19: The amygdala detects and responds to danger, but the conscious mind experiences fearby Charlie Smith

(Mar.13, 2020) PNAS: A little history goes a long way toward understanding why we study consciousness the way we do today by Joseph E. LeDoux, Matthias Michel, and Hakwan Lau.

(Mar. 9, 2020) Joseph E. LeDoux How does the non-conscious become conscious? Current Biology 30, R191–R214. < Full ><PDF>

(Feb.26, 2020) An image from our paper on NE signaling in central amygdala and threat processing was selcted as cover image in Molecular Psychiatry! Congratulations to Yiran (Joy) Gu, Walter Piper, Lauren Branigan, Rob Sears, @Elena Vazey, Gary Aston-Jones, Longnian Lin, and The Ledoux Lab.

(Feb.24, 2020) Hakwan Lau and Joseph LeDoux wrote a commentaryin in PNAS about using individualized fMRI connectivity of the amygdala to track psychiatric symptoms - A new vista in psychiatric treatment: Using individualized functional connectivity to track symptoms.

(Feb.18, 2020) Science Salon with Claudia Dreifus - Joseph LeDoux Ph.D: Danger is Ancient—Fear Is A Recent Invention. The 92d St Y on March 11 at 7p

(Feb.9, 2020) magazinedigital.com: "La ansiedad es parte de nuestra naturaleza" Texto de Eva Millet (Google English translation)

(Feb.4, 2020) "Life Is Dangerous: Joseph LeDoux with The Amygdaloids & Doc No"- Saturday, March 14, 2020, 7 PM – 8:30 PM, Spectrum.

(Jan. 23, 2020) Educational conference May 1-3, 2020: Schooling the Self - Joe LeDoux is among the featured speakers in this upcoming conference.

(Jan. 21, 2020) "How Deep Do We Go?"- The Helix Center- Saturday, February 29, 2020 at 2:30pm. At this Helix Center Roundtable, Joe LeDoux will discuss "The Deep History of Ourselves" with Karl Niklas(evolutionary biology), Kristen Lindquist (cognitive neuroscience of emotion), Gerald Hurowitz(psychiatry), and David Rosenthal (philosophy of mind).

(Jan. 14, 2020) iltascabile.com: “È complicato”: il rapporto tra cervello, coscienza e emozioni umane - Un dialogo con il neuroscienziato Joseph LeDoux. Paolo Pecere ("It's complicated": the relationship between brain, consciousness and human emotions - A dialogue with the neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux. By Paolo Pecere ) English Translation.

(Dec. 31, 2019) Big Think book review: "5 neuroscience reality checks, from a top neuroscientist .

(Dec. 13, 2019) "The Deep History of Ourselves" now nominated for the 2020 PEN America Literary Awards.

(Dec. 11, 2019)Congrats to Linnaea Ostroff and co-authors Rob Sears and others on their paper on eLife:Axon TRAP reveals learning-associated alterations in cortical axonal mRNAs in the lateral amgydala

(Dec. 10, 2019) Psychology Today: Human Fear and Anxiety - What we can (and cannot) learn about human emotions from studies of animals By Joseph LeDoux

(Nov. 25, 2019) Psychology Today: Six Essential Principles of Brain Organization -Implications for the treatment of mental and behavioral disorders By Joseph LeDoux

(November 22, 2019) Our new paper on norepinephrine signaling in the amygdala central nucleus modulates defensive responses to threats is now release. Congratulations to Joy Gu, Walter Piper, Lauren Branigan, Longnian Lin, Elena Vazey, and Gary Aston-Jones!

(November 19, 2019) Twenty-two NYU Professors Make List of Most Influential Researchers- LeDouxis among them. Congrats, Joe!

LeDoux will have a public lecture on Wednesday, November 20, 2019-Author Talk: How we got Conscious Brains (Prof Joseph LeDoux, NYU)-Hosted by Laurence M. From Center for Inquiry New York City Public group

(November 19, 2019) The Science of Psychotherapy podcast: Joseph LeDoux (Part 1) by SoP

(November 11, 2019)Psychology Today: An Emotion Is... - Deconstructing how conscious emotions arise from non-conscious processes

(November 7, 2019)PG Radio: #45- Emotions and Consciousness w/ Joseph LeDoux

(October 28, 2019)Psychology Today: Have We Misunderstood Our Emotions? By Joseph LeDoux

(October 23, 2019) Former Post doctoral fellow Campese's paper "Chemogenetic Inhibition Reveals That Processing Relative But Not Absolute Threat Requires Basal Amygdala " has been publsuhded in The Journal of Neuroscience. Congrats, Vinn!

(October 23, 2019) Psychology Today: "You're a Radical Behaviorist Disguised as a Neuroscientist" - No, I am not a radical behaviorist. And here's why. By Joseph LeDoux

(October 18, 2019) Psychology Today: How Deep Do We Go? - Behavior, mind, and the 4 billion year history of life. By Joseph LeDoux

(October 07, 2019) Current Biology (Volume 29 Issue 19) Book review:Evolution of thought and emotion. By György Buzsáki

(September 29, 2019, Genoa, Italy) " Conscious brain and subjective experience of emotions. Implications for the treatment of anxiety and panic disorders - LeDoux was the featured speaker in this conference at the Congress Center of the Magazzini del Cotone .

(September 27, 2019) Brain Science: Joseph LeDoux (BS-161)

JL Blog: Sept 26, 2019; Milan Italy: Why do I say the amygdala is not a "fear" center.

(September 25, 2019) Brain World Magazine: How We Got Our Conscious Brains - An Interview with Dr. Joseph LeDoux

(September 19, 2019) NASDAQ and Yahoo Finance: Where Does Your Fear Come From? - Kevin Cookfrom Yahoo Finance talks about Fear and "The Deep History of Ourselves--The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains."

(September 16, 2019) Psychology Today: Joseph LeDoux on The Deep History of Ourselves - Why do humans experience fear? How do other organisms respond to danger? An interview with Joseph LeDoux by Jason Tougaw

(September 12, 2019) At the Rubin Museum, LeDoux invites Dr. Jeffrey Sachs to explore how the development of nervous systems powered human consciousness, which made our greatest and most horrendous achievements as a species possible.

(September 9, 2019)Science Book review:An eminent fear researcher argues for an about-face in how we conceive of emotions By David C. Van Essen

((September 5, 2019) Scientists' Understanding of Anxiety is Radically Evolving — But How Long Will it Take for Treatments to Catch Up? by ADAM PIORE - Today's Newsweek TECH & SCIENCE section features Joe LeDoux on understanding anxiety.

(September 4, 2019) "Joseph LeDoux" - Joe is on Joe Rogan's podcast today. Watching Joe's conversation with Rogan -

(September 4, 2019, 2019) Can our self-conscious minds save us from our selfish selves? - An excerpt from "The Deep History of Ourselves" is published in Aeon today.

(August 29, 2019) "The Tricky Problem with Other Minds," an excerpt from "The Deep History of Ourselves," is out in Nautilus Magazine today.

(August 29, 2019) Human Emotions Are Personal Narratives -Neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux on what makes our brains unique. By Kevin Berger

(August 19, 2019) The Deep History of Ourselves" will be out August 27! Joe will be launching his new book at One Grand Books, Narrowsburg NY (conversation with Jason Tougaw). Check out Joe's Book Tour

(June 12, 2019) Confronting the 'monarchy of fear' with spiritual resistance - This column references renowned Philosopher Martha Nussbaum and her citation of Joseph LeDoux's research in the book The Monarchy of Fear: A Philosopher Looks at Our Political Crisis

(May 11, 2019) The first review of Joe's upcoming book, "The deep history of ourselves", from KIRKUS”

(May 3, 2019) "As soon as there is life, there is danger". Joe will give a Lecture on June 4 at the Saas-Free Summer Institute of Art, NYC.

(April 23, 2019) The power of a single cell: The deep history of ourselves LeDoux invites Dr. Jeffrey Sachs to explore how the development of nervous systems powered human consciousness, which made our greatest and most horrendous achievements as a species possible. (Wednesday, 9.11.19 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM, THE RUBIN MUSEUM OF ART)

(April 23, 2019) Silence & Memory Joseph ledoux will be part of this incredible event at National Sawdust? (nationalsawdust.org) on May 24. He will describe key findings from his research on emotion and memory and their connection to music.

(March 27, 2019) From split-brain to emotional consciousness - Joseph ledoux will be receiving a special tribute from Italian Academy of Sciences to his work on the link between emotion, memory, and the brain. check out the full program here

(February 4,2019) LeDoux joined a group of scientists published a Comment article for Nature Human Behaviour: Opportunities and challenges for a maturing science of consciousness (NATURE HUMAN BEHAVIOUR | VOL 3 | FEBRUARY 2019 | 104–107 |)

EBI 2019 Distinguished Scientist Lecture - March 8, 2019 (Friday)

(September 11, 2018)chronicle.com: Layin’ Down Grooves on the Tenure Track: the Wide World of Faculty Bands - Joe LeDoux and his band Amygdaloids among the featured Faculty Bands.

(December 15, 2018) Joseph LeDoux was invited on Freakonomics Radio Live to share his views denouncing the the idea that amygdala is a fear center - Freakonomics Radio Live: “Where Does Fear Live in the Brain?”

(December 5, 2018) Dean Mobbs and Joseph LeDoux edited a special issue of Curr Op in Behav Sci on Survival circuits - Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. Volume 24, Pages 1-180 (December 2018). <Editorial overview>

(August 22, 2018) Copernicus Center for Interdisciplinary Studies Published a video: "Joseph E. LeDoux, Anxious: Using the Brain to Understand and Treat Fear and Anxiety" - LeDoux's book "Anxious" has been translated into Polish.

(August 9, 2018) Copernicus Center for Interdisciplinary Studies Published the lecture video: "Putting Emotion into Consciousness" - Joseph LeDoux gave a keynotes lecture at The 22nd Meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC 22), 26-29 June 2018, Krakow, Poland.

(July 1, 2018) "Putting Emotion into Consciousness" - Joseph LeDoux gave a keynotes lecture at The 22nd Meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC 22), 26-29 June 2018, Krakow, Poland.

(June 6, 2018) brainworldmagazine.com: On Fear, Emotions, and Memory: An Interview with Dr. Joseph LeDoux

(June 1, 2018) Have we misunderstood what fear is? - Joseph LeDoux gave a Keynote lecture at El Aleph Festival de Arte y Ciencia in the MUAC Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo Mexico City, So We Are (Joseph LeDoux and Colin Dempsey, the acoustic group of The Amygdaloids) closes out The Aleph Festival of Art and Science in the MUAC University Museum Contemporary Art.

(April 26, 2018) Silence and Memory: An Exploration of Music, Mind and Brain - Musician and psychotherapist Cornelius Dufallo (ETHEL, Flux Quartet) will host a concert and discussion featuring neuroscientist, Joseph LeDoux at Spectrum in Bushwick on Thursday, May 10 at 7 PM - 9 PM

(April 23, 2018) Have we misunderstood fear and anxiety? - An interview with Professor Joseph E LeDoux conducted by April Cashin-Garbutt, MA (Cantab)

(April 6, 2018) Consciousness raises fear: An interview with Joseph LeDoux | Newsweek Polska, No. 15/2018 - Read the full article in Newsweek PLUS (Paid access to the full article in Polish)

(April 3, 2018) Comment on Higher Order Theory of Emotion: "The High-Order and Conscious Emotion: Assessing the Foundations, Contributions, and Implications of LeDoux’s Model of Conscious and Cognitive Emotion". By Luiz Augusto Rosa

(March 29, 2018) Read Joseph LeDoux & Nathaniel Daw's new article on Nature reviews neuroscience: "Surviving threats: neural circuit and computational implications of a new taxonomy of defensive behaviour".

(February 26, 2018) The Not Old Better Show: Facing Fear: Podcast preview of the upcoming lecture at the Smithsonian next week.

OUTSIDE-IN: THE SOCIAL BRAIN, CULTURE, AND THE SEL : Joseph E. LeDoux will share stage with Siri Hustvedt, and Jason Tougaw talking about  elusive brains on MAR. 2 in the Graduate Center, CUNY. The panel discussion will be followed by a musical performance by So We Are, LeDoux’s musical duo with Colin Dempsey.

Dr. Pascale Gisquet, from the French National Center for Scientific Research, Neurosciences Paris-Saclay Institute(NeuroPSI) will present: "Memory Integration: an Alternative to the Consolidation/Reconsolidation Hypothesis" in Meyer Hall (4 Washington Place), Room 121, on April 4, 12:30pm

(February 2, 2018) The Elusive Brain : Literary Experiments in the Age of Neuroscience. Hardback English By (author) Jason Tougaw , Foreword by Joseph E. LeDoux. Publication date 24 Apr 2018; Publisher Yale University Press

(Jan 22, 2018) dana.org: Know Thyself: Well-Being and Subjective Experience . By: Joseph LeDoux, Ph.D., Richard Brown, Ph.D., Daniel S. Pine, M.D, and Stefan G. Hofmann, Ph.D.

(Jan 22, 2018) artnews.com: Nene Humphrey at Lesley Heller Workspace, New York.By The Editors of ARTnews

Joseph LeDoux will speak at the coming conference – "Anxiety". Rome, Italy | Feb 10, 2018. Joined by his band member Colin Dempsey, he will also perform a few songs in the conference opening night.

(January 10–February 18, 2018) Nene Humphrey: Transmission at Lesley Heller Workspace - As a long time artist-in-residence in the LeDoux Lab, Nene Humphrey is adept at blending art and science, considering the connection between the neuroscience of emotions and the Victorian mourning ritual of braiding the hair of deceased loved ones.

Facing Fear : Why do our bodies and minds react the way they do when we’re in danger? LeDoux will discusses the impact of recent research into the neurological and emotional roots of fear, and why it might change our pharmacological and behavioral approaches to helping people reframe this emotion. Ripley Center, Wednesday, March 7, 2018, 6;45 pm. Washington, D.C.

(December 8, 2017)scientificamerican. Do Genes Direct Our Behavior? - Studying the acute sense of smell may provide some answers By Marky Fischetti

(December 6, 2017)My Mind's Eye: A Series of Video Interviews with Jos LeDoux. Episode #5: The Roots of Behavior: An interview with Cori Bargmann

(December 6, 2017) The subjective experience of emotion: a fearful view - LeDux and Hofmann just published a paper to emphasize the importance of Subjective Experience in understanding what emotion is, and also in understanding and treating emotional disorders.

(November 14, 2017) NYU Center for Mind, Brain and Consciousness in conjunction with the NYU Center for Bioethics and NYU Animal Studies will host a conference on Animal Consciousness.

(October 19, 2017) Simple Ways to Be Better at Remembering- Adam Poprscu quotes Joseph LeDoux in a New York Times article about ways to improve memory.

(October 19, 2017) Simple Ways to Be Better at Remembering- Adam Poprscu quotes Joseph LeDoux in a New York Times article about ways to improve memory.

(Sept. 25, 2017)Campese et al. have published a new paper in Front. Behav. Neurosci:Pavlovian Extinction and Recovery Effects in Aversive Pavlovian to Instrumental Transfer

(August 4, 2017) For those in the Boston area over the summer and fall, check out Kirk Hammett's Horror Movie poster collection: 'It's Alive!: Classic Horror and Sci-Fi Movie Posters from the Kirk Hammett Collection' at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem. it's opening on August 12! LeDouxwrote an essay on why we love to be scared by horror films for the show's catalog.

(August 1, 2017) The Mystery Of ADHD Motivation, Solved. By Terence Szuplat - LeDoux's book The Emotional Brain was cited in the article.

(Apr. 24, 2017) LeDoux and his research were mentioned in the article on Today's Washingtonpost: Perspective|We already know what President Trump will say if terrorists strike in the U.S. By Terence Szuplat

(Mar.30, 2017) It's Alive!" Classic Horror and Sci-Fi Art from the Kirk Hammett Collection - along with intriguing essays by Daniel Finamore, Joseph LeDoux, and Steve Almond on view at the Peabody Essex Museum from August 12 to November 26, 2017.

(Mar.28, 2017) National Academy of Sciences: The National Academy of Sciences today features guest post from LeDoux's article with Richard Brown on "A Higher-Order Theory of Emotional Consciousness" recently published in the Proceedings of the NAS.

(Mar.16, 2017) Cell.com: Semantics, Surplus Meaning, and the Science of Fear - Read LeDoux's new article on Cell Press.

(Feb.27, 2017) menshealth.com: Everything We Know About Fear and Anxiety Might Be Wrong - by By Alanna Nuñez

WHAT IS FEAR? AND IS FEAR OF DEATH REALLY A “FEAR”? - Joseph LeDoux will be speaking on death and fear, as part of a panel on Awareness of Death. Join the live webcast "Awareness of Death and Personal Mortality: Implications for Anthropogeny" in Mar. 3, 2017 -1:00pm to 5:30pm!

(Feb.19, 2017) Interesting commentary on LeDoux and Brown's "A Higher-Order Theory of Emotional Consciousness" from Conscious Entities: Fear and HOROR

(Feb.17, 2017) bilimfili.com: Duygularin Içgüdüsel Degil, Bilissel Oldugu Sonucuna Varildi By Sevkan Uzel

(Feb.17, 2017) psychologytoday: Joseph LeDoux Reports: Emotions Are “Higher-Order States” By Christopher Bergland.

(Feb.15, 2017) LeDoux and Brown's PNAS paper with on A Higher-Order Theory of Emotional Consciousness appears on the FB Page,The Vigina Monologues.

(Feb.15, 2017) psychcentral.com: Emotions May Be Learned, Not Innate By Rick Nauert PhD.

(Feb.15, 2017) neurosciencenews.com: Emotions Are Cognitive, Not Innate.

(Feb.15, 2017) sciencedaily.com: Emotions are cognitive, not innate, researchers conclude.

(Feb.15, 2017) medicalxpress.com: Emotions are cognitive, not innate, researchers conclude.

(Feb.15, 2017) PNAS Early Edition: What is an Emotion? Joseph LeDoux and Richard Brown provide their answer: A Higher-Order Theory of Emotional Consciousness.

(Feb.10, 2017) Scientific American: Why Do Our Memories Change? [Video] - By Mark Fischetti

(Jan.17, 2017) mtv.com/news: FEARING FEAR ITSELF AFTER THE 2016 ELECTION - Our political anxieties didn't go away in november. So... whta do we we do about it? By Jaime Fuller

(Jan.9, 2017) Great start for 2017, Lorenzo and Valérie's paper published in Nature!- Updating temporal expectancy of an aversive event engages striatal plasticity under amygdala control.

Mega Event Brain Knowledge on Saturday, December 17, 2016, Düsseldorf, Germany: Josph LeDoux will present "The struggle with fear - Implications for understanding And the treatment of fear and fear ". (Presentation in English with simultaneous translation)

(Dec.1, 2016) cell.com: What We Talk About When We Talk About Emotions - Cell editor Mirna Kvajo talked with Joe LeDoux, Cristina Alberini, and Liz Phelps about the challenges in researching emotions and whether studies in animals can teach us about them. <Listen to the the Conversation>

(Dec. 1, 2016) thehindubusinessline.com:Striking the right chord by GAILYNN NICKS/YANNICK CARRIOU

(Nov.29, 2016) news.com.au: When controversial mass shooting tactic ‘run, hide, fight’ actually worksby Rohan Smith

(Nov.28, 2016)nydailynews.com: Ohio State University urges students to 'Run Hide Fight' in active shooter situation — here's what it means by DAN GOOD

Sentiment Speaks: Answering Your Questions Of How Sentiment Can Accurately Track The Metals Market by Avi Gilburt

(Nov.28, 2016)slate.com/blogs:In Moments of Crisis, Should You Really “Run, Hide, Fight”? By David Canfield

(Nov. 09, 2016) Joseph E. LeDoux, Ph.D., was awarded the 2016 Jean-Marie Delwart International Prize

(Oct. 29, 2016) vocativ.com A Neuroscientist Takes Us Inside The Science Of Fear The Anxious Brain

(Oct. 24, 2016) danablog.org: The Anxious Brain

(Oct. 21, 2016) QUARTZ: Fear is often used to control us—but we can also use it to make better decisions by Robin M. Hogarth

(Oct. 18, 2016) nature.com: The birth, death and resurrection of avoidance: a reconceptualization of a troubled paradigm. A new review paper by LeDoux et al. published in Molecular Psychiatry

(Oct. 18, 2016) aaas.org: Neuroscience and Society: The Anxious Brain: The Neuroscience of Phobias. LeDoux Presented in The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

(Oct. 17, 2016) PsychiatryAdvisor: Understanding Fear and Anxiety to Develop Adequate Treatments

(Oct. 13, 2016) hyperallergic.com: A Performance Where Victorian Mourning Braiding Meets Neuroscience

(Oct. 13, 2016)cronkitenews.azpbs.org: Why we love a good scare.

(Oct.08, 2016) Kingdablog: LeDoux: Anxiety and Neuropsychoanalysis.

Reminder: Program for October 13, 2016: LabLinks: Emotion and the Brain.

(October 06, 2016) Rollingstone: Why We're Living in the Age of Fear - This is the safest time in human history. So why are we all so afraid?

(September 21, 2016) Does Prozac Really Treat Anxiety? Maybe Not- An Interview With Joseph LeDoux|Inverse.

(September 21, 2016) lansingcitypulse.com: Advice Goddess - Thinking Outside The Boobs and The Son Also Plagiarizes BY AMY ALKON

(September 18, 2016) Joseph LeDoux will moderate 'The Mind' - one of NYU Inauguration Celebration Week events. LeDoux and his musical partner, Colin Dempsey, the duo known as So We Are, will also perform songs about mind and brain in the event.

(September 17, 2016) Joseph LeDoux features in the PBS television series 'Closer to Truth'. Watch the series of interviews here.

Program for October 13, 2016: LabLinks: Emotion and the Brain.

(September 10, 2016) indiatimes.com: New study to help you treat fear and anxiety.

(September 9, 2016) National Institute of Mental Health: Circuitry for Fearful Feelings, Behavior Untangled in Anxiety Disorders.

(September 9, 2016) eurekalert.org: Researchers outline barriers to treating fear and anxiety.

(September 9, 2016) Joseph LeDoux and Daniel Pine's paper has jsut published in the American J. Psychiatry today: Using Neuroscience to Help Understand Fear and Anxiety: A Two-System Framework.

(August 9, 2016) Joseph LeDoux's book "Anxious" has received the 2016 William James Book Award from the American Psychological Association.

(April 21, 2016) Odyssey of the Mind:In this event, Neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux will be joined by Colin Dempsey  under the duo name So We Are , to give a musical performance related to the topic of his talk: The Unconscious Is Less Mysterious But No Less Important Than You Thought.

(March 30, 2016) Rocking Out for CNS 2016:Three bands made up of CNS members – The Amygdaloids, Pavlov’s Dogz, and The Shrinks – are playing this Sunday, on the occasion of the CNS annual meeting in New York.

clomedia.com(March 4, 2016): When Emotions Hijack Your Rational Response - Brain research can help decipher the reason behind those awful, eyebrow-raising office gaffes. By Bravetta Hassell.

cmbc.emory.edu(February 9, 2016): Conference explores 'Foundations of Emotions in Mind, Brain and Culture': Joseph LeDoux will discuss his research about the biological framework of fear and memory in CMBC' s upcoming conference.

Project Syndicate (January 14,2016) Getting Anxiety Right - by Joseph LeDoux.

(December 25, 2014): The neuroscience of nostalgia — strong holiday memories explained by Luba Ostashevsky

medpagetoday.com(December 22, 2014): The Amygdaloids: NYU Docs Rock the House-Heavy 'mental' music from neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux

NYU(December 19, 2014):New York University will host Alexis Gambis, founder and director of Imagine Science Films, for a discussion of his first feature-length film, “The Fly Room,” on Fri., Jan. 23, 2015. Joe has a small role as Theodore Dreisser (the novelist) in this film.

NIMH (December 16, 2014): Recent lab paper by Johansen et al was listed as Best of 2014 in NIMH Director’s Blog.

December 16, 2014 - Science, comedy, Joseph LeDoux and Janeane Garofalo! You're the Expert: JANEANE GAROFALO is going to be on the panel talking to Dr. Joseph LeDoux, one of the world's leading neuroscientists about the science behind our emotions. Get your tickets HERE

El País (December 14, 2014): The LeDoux Lab, especially Lorenzo Diaz-Mataix, in El Pais. The Amygdaloids also get a nod: Identificado el mecanismo que graba el miedo en el cerebro.

The Huffingtonpost( December 11, 2014) : Why Painful Memories Linger. By Christopher Wanjek

December 8, 2014 -nyu.edu Press release: Scientist Shed New Light on How Bad Experience to Change the Brain to Produce Memories.

December 8, 2014 - Neurosciencenews.com: Shedding New Light on the Formation of Emotional Fear Memories

December 8, 2014 - Joshua P. J and Lorenzo Díaz-Mataix et al.just published a paper in PNAS: Hebbian and neuromodulatory mechanisms interact to trigger associative memory formation

October 17, 2014 - Emotion in the Arts and Sciences: a roundtable discussion between Rosanne Cash and Joseph LeDoux, moderated by Judith Regan (host of Sirius-XM Stars Channel’s “The Judith Regan Show”), will take place on Tues., Nov. 18, 7-8 p.m. at NYU’s Global Center for Academic and Spiritual Life (Grand Hall Room573). The event is free and open to the public with limited seating available. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. Reservation is required, and a seat can be requested at eventsebi.nyu@gmail.com.

October 10, 2014 - Good luck on your new Journey, Linnaea! One of the core scientists of our lab during the last several years, Dr. Linnaea Ostroff, has taken a position as an Assistant Investigator at the Allen Institute for Brain Science. Read more on our Facebook.

October 06, 2014 - Congratulations from the LeDoux Lab to John O'Keefe, May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser for their well-deserved Nobel Prize !!!

August 20, 2014 - Scientific American : How Do Our Brains Remember? [Video] - Joe LeDoux interviews Eric Kande. By Mark Fischetti

June 30, 2014 - Scientific American (June 30, 2014): Free Will: Is Your Brain the Boss of You? [Video] - Joe LeDoux interviews Mike Gazzaniga on the topic of free will and the brain featuring "How free is your will" By Amygdaloids

June 17, 2014 - MIT Technology Review : The Promise and Perils of Manipulating Memory - Q+A Joseph LeDoux by Brian Bergstein

May 07, 2014 - "Lesions of lateral or central amygdala abolish aversive Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer in rats. " Vincent Campese et al. published a paper in Front. Behav. Neurosci.

April 10, 2014 - " 7. 1996-2001: A Great Time to be in That Great Lab in That Great City" - Former postdoc Karim Nader shares his experience in the LeDoux lab in the 90's in this week's blog post

March 26, 2014 - Joseph LeDoux has been named a recipient of the William James Fellow Award for 2015.

February 26, 2014 - ROCK YOUR MIND! Brain Science and Rock Music Come Together to Shift Communication for Consciousness Science During Brain Awareness Week at The Bowery Electric---March 13

February 25, 2014 -

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February 10, 2014 - PNAS: QnAs with Joseph LeDoux - This is a QnAs with a recently elected member of the National Academy of Sciences to accompany the member’s Inaugural Article. Hosted by Prashant Nair.

February 5, 2014 - Coming to terms with fear. PNAS published Joe's new paper online today.

February, 2014 - Molecular mechanisms of threat learning in the lateral nucleus of the amygdala. - A new publication by Rob Sears et al. in

Janurary 13, 2014 - Finding Myself in The LeDoux Lab- Former postdoc Greg Quirkshares his experience in the LeDoux lab in the 90's in this week's blog post @ledouxlab.tumblr.com.

December 31, 2013 - Can Outliers Help Us Understand the Average Brain?- Former student, Dr. Kiriana Cowansage on the importance of individual differences.@ledouxlab.tumblr.com

December 22, 2013 -Pavlovian-to-Instrumental Transfer: How a Cue can Drive Behavior- Dr. Vinn Campese talks about how certain cues can drive behavior and how we plan to examine this phenomenon with threat in the brain @ledouxlab.tumblr.com.

December 18, 2013 - HAPPY HOLIDAYS! The Amygdaloids entertained EBI and LeDouxlab's joint holiday party at Cantina Royal in Williamsburg.

December 18, 2013 -Today we celebrate Dr. Hillary Schiff and her successful dissertation defense. Well done, Hillary! Congratulations Dr. Hillary Schiff ! We're so proud of you.

December 12, 2013 - " Synapses lacking astrocyte appear in the amygdala during consolidation of Pavlovian threat conditioning - Ostroff et al. published a paper inJournal of Comparative Neurology.

December 10, 2013 - "Gumbo, Fear and Rock-n-Roll - New Online Publication Covers the Emotional Brain and Reveals at Least One of Joe’s Little Secrets" . By JoAnna Klein@ledouxlab.tumblr.com

December 9, 2013 - "Joe LeDoux: The Emotional Brain, Gumbo and the Amygdaloids" - in the official newsletter of the International Society for Research on Emotion , Emotion Researcher, featured Joe LeDoux as the first interviewee of the series.

December 2, 2013 - "How the Prefrontal Cortex and the Amygdala Compete to Keep You Safe" - Justin Moscarello has a poster on LeDoux Lab Blogosphere.

November 26, 2013 - " Development of an aversive Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer task in rat" - Vincent Campese et al. published a paper in Front. Behav. Neurosci.

November 25, 2013 - "Orexin/hypocretin system modulates amygdala- dependent threat learning through the locus coeruleus" - Robert M. Sears et al. published a paper in PNAS .

November 25, 2013 - "Extinction during reconsolidation of threat memory diminishes prefrontal cortex involvement" by Schiller et al. - A new paper, a collaboration with Phelps Lab at NYU, published in PNAS .

November 19, 2013 - The LeDoux Lab launches its blog on Tumblr with Joe's first post "An Emotional Brain is a Hard Thing to Tame".

November 9, 2013 - LeDouxlab at 2013 SfN - Read our <Abstracts>

October 31, 2013 - The Science of Fear- Join neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux for a live chat on Thursday, 31 October, at 3 p.m. on news.sciencemag.org/brain-behavio .

October 20, 2013 - Photos from EBI's past event "The Brain, the Mind, and Meditation” - Photos by Rose Meacham

October 10, 2013 - Brain, Mind, Meditation: An Event Sponsored by NYU's Emotional Brain Institute

On Tuesday September 17, the Emotional Brain Institute will host "The Brain, the Mind, and Meditation,” a roundtable discussion featuring neuroscientist Richard Davidsonand Buddhist scholar Robert Thurman, on Tues., Sept. 17, 7-8 p.m. at NYU’s Kimmel Center for University Life, Rosenthal Pavilion (60 Washington Square South, 10th Floor [at LaGuardia Place]). Judith Regan, host of Sirius-XM Stars Channel’s “The Judith Regan Show,” will moderate the session. RSVP required: eventsebi@gmail.com

August 8, 2013 Google Hangouts: Joe’s first Google Hangouts with Imagine Science films: Experimenta: Conversation with Joseph LeDoux About My Mind’s Eye

May 30, 2013 - Yadin Dudai has been awarded the Fondation IPSEN Neuronal Plasticity Prize for 2013.

April 30, 2013 - Joseph LeDoux is elected to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of his distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.

April 7, 2013 - For the Anxious, Avoidance Can Have an Upside. Joe wrote an article in The New York Times opinion section.

March 8, 2013) Photos from EBI's past event: EVENING OF EMOTION IN THE ARTS ANDSCIENCES

March 7, 2013 - Once More With Feeling: The Emotional Brain, the Actor and the Audience -- A photo gallery from EBI first annual EVENING OF EMOTION IN THE ARTS AND SCIENCES by NYU-Photo-Bureau

February 2, 2013 - This Week In Geek: Joseph E. LeDoux - NYU Local.

January 28, 2013 - What Is Consciousness? Go to the video! - The Mind Body Problem: Joe‘s interview with Ned Block for Scientific American By Mark Fischetti

January 15th, 2013 - The Emotional Brain: Nene Humphrey in dialogue with Joseph LeDoux on January 15th at 7 p.m. at Proteus Gowanus.

(October 25, 2012) An Interview with Joe LeDoux, NYU Neuroscience Professor and Frontman of The Amygdaloids

(October 23, 2012) Joseph LeDoux participated in a discussion on The Daily Circuit, a broadcast of Minnesota Public Radio News, on why our fears don't always match up with the facts, and how to make healthier choices in a risky world.

(September 23, 2012) Joseph LeDoux has received the 2012 Gantt Medal from the Pavlovian Society.

(September 10, 2012)On fear, emotions and memory- Rock star/Neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux’s new terms – An interview by Margaret Emory in Brain World Magazine(Issue 1, Volume 4, Fall 2012)

( August 6, 2012) Joe was interviewed by guest host Rosanne Cash on the WNYCLeonard Lopate show. They talked music, science and whatever else came up.Wednesday August 8, 12 noon WNYC 93.9FM, 820AM, archive at www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/

(July 5, 2012) The Mental Groove: Joe was interviewed by Dr. Susan Hickman and Co-Host Courtney Armstrong on VoiceAmerica Variety Channel.

(March 25, 2012) Finding Clues in the Fearful Brain. Joe's article in The New York Times opinion section.

(January 24, 2012) The Amygdaloids on “Science & U”
Barry Mitchell interviews Joseph LeDoux and members of his band The Amygdaloids — New York City neuroscientists who write and perform “brainy” rock music. Their new EP, “All In Our Minds,” drops on January 28 and is available for download at www.amygdaloids.com.

(January 22, 2012) Searching the Brain for the Roots of Fear, Joe's article in NYtimes.

(January 15th, 2013) The Emotional Brain: Nene Humphrey in dialogue with Joseph LeDoux on January 15th at 7 p.m. at Proteus Gowanus.

(January 15th, 2013) The Emotional Brain: Nene Humphrey in dialogue with Joseph LeDoux on January 15th at 7 p.m. at Proteus Gowanus.

(January 15th, 2013) The Emotional Brain: Nene Humphrey in dialogue with Joseph LeDoux on January 15th at 7 p.m. at Proteus Gowanus.

(January 15th, 2013) The Emotional Brain: Nene Humphrey in dialogue with Joseph LeDoux on January 15th at 7 p.m. at Proteus Gowanus.

(January 15th, 2013) The Emotional Brain: Nene Humphrey in dialogue with Joseph LeDoux on January 15th at 7 p.m. at Proteus Gowanus.

(November 1, 2011) Doomsday On The Brain: DDFF 2011 by Doomsday Film Festival.

(November 1, 2011) Joe's article on The Amygdala is responsible for more visits to Scholarpedia from search engines than any other search term (other than scholarpedia).

(June 14, 2011)Music and the brain, literally - Read Joe's new article in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

(June 13, 2011) The flip side: scientists who rock - Read Joe's article in Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

(May 19-20, 2011) Joe, as a honorary guest of the 15th Kraków Methodological Conference, delivered the 2011 Copernicus Lecture: Our emotional brains. Watch the <video>

(April 29, 2011)Joe LeDoux has been presented the Karl Spencer Lashley Award of the American Philosophical Society.

A Stockholm Psychiatry Lecture held Feb 2nd 2011 at Karolinska Institutet: What fearful rats can tell us about treating psychiatric disorders (Video)

The New York Academy of Sciences (October 20, 2010): Joe Wins American Psychological Association’s Distinguished Scientific Award.

(October 8, 2010) Joe's Latest Dispatch on TheBeautifulBrain.com:
Part 6 "Brainstorm"

Bringing do-it-yourself science to the masses - An Article about a mega science fair 'World Maker Faire' hosted by the New York Hall of Science and a Dana grantee. Joe LeDoux, joined by Ward White and Noah Hutton, played in the Rock-It Science Cabaret (Sept. 27, 2010).

(July 09, 2010 ) Joe and his band Amygdaloids on NPR's SCIENCE FRIDAY.

Joe's Blog Series on Beautiful Brain: Inside the Brain, Behind the Music
-- Part 1: Fearing ( June 29, 2010)
-- Part 2 Mind Over Matter (July 1, 2010)
-- Part 3 Glue(July 8,2010)
-- Part 4 How Free is Your Will (July 15, 2010)
-- Part 5 Crime of Passion(July 23, 2010)
-- Part 6 Brainstorm(October 8, 2010)

Joe LeDoux discusses emotion, memory, and the brain on Big Think– 6.24.10.
--Watch's Joe's Interview on Big Think.

May 27, 2010 Joe LeDoux is on Charlie Rose Brain Series Episode Eight.

Well Tuned Guitars and Highly Strung People : New Huffington Post Blog about Joe's evening with Lenny Kaye at the Rubin Museum (April 26, 2010)

Rocking the Brainwave Series to its Finish- Joseph LeDoux and Guitarist Lenny Kaye of the Patti Smith Band in the conclusion of the 2010 Brainwave Series. (April 24, 2010 by Noah Hutton). View <Photos> by Michael Palmafor the Rubin Museum of Art.

Upcoming event: Sunday. June 6, 2010 in Cornelia St Cafe , Joe and Daniela will lecture on Fear, followed by The Amygdaloids' performance.

April 19, 2010 at 7 pm: How We Get Highly Strung, an evening with Lenny Kaye and Joseph LeDoux at the Rubin Museum. Talk and music. <Photos> by Michael Palma forthe Rubin Museum of Art

The Emotional Brain - The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life
Joe gave a lecture in 2010 Brain Awareness Lecture Series and then performed someAmygdaloids songs. Watch the <Video> (March 1, 2010)

This month’s PODCAST features an interview with Joseph LeDoux(Feb.5th, 2010): The Neuroscience Rocker: Inside the LeDoux Lab

The Hidden Face of Fear: A Film by Enrico Cerasuolo & Sergio Fergnachino
with Professor Joseph E. LeDoux and Dr. Eric R. Kandel. The documentary is going to be screened by ARTE (France and Germany) on Friday January 29, 2010, at 10.05pm.(Jan.26,2010)

Joseph LeDoux received the 2009 D.O. Hebb Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award.Congratulations Joe!

The Synaptic Reunion: The LeDoux lab celebrated 20 years at NYU in Hemmerdinger Hall on Saturday, December 12, 2009. Previous and current lab members presented work from their labs.

A cocktail reception in honor of Joe's 60th Birthday: On December 11, 2009, Joe's friends and the NYU community celebrated Joe's 60th Birthday in Hemmerdinger Hall, NYU.

Daniela Schiller was featured in Discover Magazine: Daniela is the subject of an article on both her science in the Phelps/LeDoux lab and her drumming for The Amygdaloids in the Nov issue of Discover.

Can Memories Be Erased?Read Joe's article on THE HUFFINGTON POST . (Posted: October 7, 2009)

The Neurology of fear: An Exclusive Interview With Joseph LeDoux on constructinghorror.com.

East Coast rocker-scientists swap labs for stage: An article in MSN Entertainmentdescribes how LeDoux bundles his music and research together.(8/20/2009)

The Synaptic Reunion - 20 Years of the LeDoux Lab at NYU

 The LeDouxlab alumni reunion took place Saturday, December 12th, 2009. It included a day of presentations (of science and reminiscences) and ended with a party.

There was a cocktail reception in honor of Joe's 60th birthday, followed by a performance by his band - The Amgydaloids.

Joseph LeDoux was on NPR's Morning Edition again (September 4, 2009) - Listen to and read the story: In Future, Science Could Erase Traumatic Memories.

Joseph LeDoux was on NPR's Morning Edition (August 28, 2009) - In Health Care Debate, Fear Trumps Logic..

Joseph LeDoux was awarded the 2009 Cátedra Santiago Grisolía Prize in
Valencia, Spain.

Joseph LeDoux was given a Presidential Citation from the American
Psychological Association for his contributions to the study of the emotional brain.

Joseph LeDoux was awarded the 2008 Donald O. Hebb Award from the American Psychological Association for Distinguished Scientific Contributions

Joseph LeDoux on THE HUFFINGTON POST

• How does your brain work? (Posted May 11, 2009)

• Guns, Germs and Squeals (Posted May 13, 2009 | 06:53 AM (EST)

• Why the "Right Brain" Idea is Wrong-Headed (Posted: May 29, 2009 02:01 PM )

FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH: Joseph LeDoux's Exploits on Sabbatical at Cambridge

• Post 1: Saturday, April 11, 2009, Cambridge UK

• Post 2: Why “For What It’s Worth”

• Post 3: One is the Loneliest Number

• Post 4:Curse of the Watchtower, or Life Imitates Blog

• Post 5:Guys, Spies, Rough Stuff, and Snuff

• Post 6: Interstellar Overdrive

• Post 7: Hold on, I’m Coming

• Post 8: Radio, Radio

• Post 9: A hard night’s day

• Post 10: Synchronicity

• Post 11: Slow Down

• Post 12: Oh Lord, Please Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood

• Post 13: The boy from New York City

• Post 14: Spanish Castle Magic

• Post 15: The Long and Winding Road

• Post 16: Highway 61 Revisited

• post 17: How does your brain work? (TheHuffington Post)

• Post:18: Guns, Germs and Squeals (The Huffington Post)

• Post:19: New York State of Mind

• Post 20: Tomorrow Never Knows

An art exhibition from an artist in residence at Joseph LeDoux’s lab.
-- Watch Artist Nene Humphrey's <Video> and <Artwork>

The Rock-It Science Festival: Rock It Science will feature The Amygdaloids and other bands made up of scientists, and lots of great guest artists: Lenny Kaye, Dee Snider, The Kennedys, Peter Holsapple, Gary Lucas, Steve Wynn, Dan Levitin, and more.

Where: Highline Ballroom
When:Tues March 3, 2009

Interview Joe LeDoux - Discover Magazine Video - Watch the <Video>.
------ More related articles on Discover Magazine :
How to Erase a Single Memory
Emotions and the Brain: Fear

A conference on emotion regulation: March 2-3, 2009 Time: 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Park Central Hotel Ballroom, 870 Seventh Avenue, New York, New York 10019. Following the conference a music festival featuring science bands and special guest artists will take place.

Fearful Brains in an Anxious World: (Nov 11, 2008 • 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM) An Evening with Joseph LeDoux An Evening with Joseph LeDoux. Sponsored by: Science & the City. Listen the<Audio> and View the<slide show>.

Factoring Fear: What Scares Us and Why (October 27, 2008 ). An article on LeDoux's work from Scientific American.

Spring, 2008. NYU Alumni Magazine: Anxiety on the Brain .

April 3, 2008. The Amygdaloids are not rocket scientists but brain scientists who rock-it. Watch the <video> for a short lecture on Emotion, Memory and the Brain by Dr.Joseph LeDoux followed by songs performed by The Amygdaloids at 92nd Y.

LeDoux's research and his band The Amygdaloids are among Brainwave festival events running across New York City until June -- Read the Article in Nature Books & Arts column.

Science current issue(Jan.11, 2008) has a short story on Dr. LeDoux's band in the Newsmakers column. Read the article Here. (PDF)

Can Fear Be Forgotten? POPULAR SCIENCE features LeDoux and his research (Dec.26, 2007).

Drug may soothe bad memories:(Oct.11, 2007) Washington Square News Features Joseph LeDoux's research.

“Why Do We Feel So Afraid?” - Topic of Joseph LeDoux Lecture, Oct. 10

Science, Music & Your Brain - Click here to watch the video(Monday, October 1, 2007).

The Emotional Brain -- A Lecture by Joseph LeDoux at the New York Open Center (Tuesday, October 2, 8pm)

Joseph LeDoux's heavy mental -- Jonathan Cott and Karen Rester interview Joe for Salon.Com about his research and The Amygdaloids. Jonathan is author of "On the Sea of Memory: A Journey From Forgetting to Remembering," editor of "Bob Dylan: The Essential Interviews." He also did John Lennon's last interview, and has interviewed numerous other musicians. Karen Rester is a free-lance writer working on her first novel (July 25, 2007).

Heavy Mental: The Message is in the Music -- Arianna Huffington Blog Site Features Amygdaloids. Read the Article on the Huffington Post (July 24, 2007).

Radio Lab, Friday, June 08, 2007, an NPR program, interviewed Joe LeDoux about "Memory and Forgetting". Available as a podcast too. Listen to the whole show .

Henry and Lucy Moses Professor of Science Joseph LeDoux gave a speech to the class of 2007 at the graduation ceremony for NYU's College of Arts and Science at Madison Square Garden. Following his speech, LeDoux and his band, The Amygdaloids, performed for the crowd of graduates and their families. Read the <Speech>

NEW INSTITUTE ESTABLISHED TO STUDY BRAIN'S EMOTIONAL FUNCTIONS. Monday, April 16, 2007

Wipe out a single memory-A news story about our recent study from Nature.com.

A Band of Scientists Who Really Are a Band - An article in The New York Times.<Read the article>

The Amygdaloids performed as part of the Entertaining Science Cabaret at Cornelia Street Café on Sunday, Mar. 4, 2007 at 6PM. Click here for the details.

Wired to get wound up! Why emotions are so hard to control (Video)---Professor Joseph E LeDoux, Professor Keith Kendrick, Professor Raj Persaud - Gresham College Lectures (Wed. 21 February 2007 6pm at the Museum of London)

Our poster in TimeOut about this event

The Amygdaloids

Neighborhood: Greenwich Village
Venue: Cornelia Street Café
Travel: Subway: A, C, E, B, D, F, V to W 4th St
Category: Around Town
Address: 29 Cornelia St
Phone: 212-989-9319
This week's schedule: March 4 at 6pm
Details: Four NYU scientists, including neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux (The Emotional Brain) perform original songs, such as “Mind-Body Problem,” “All in a Nut” and “If You Want Your Mind to Last.”

Message in The Music -- An article on FORWARD (Fri. Jan 05, 2007) about The Amygdaloids.

The Amygdaloids was on NYU Tonight news in Nov.30, 2006 (set the time bar on RealPlayer at 9:29 min, the Amygdaloids News lasts about 4 minutes).

A Night of Mental Disorder -- Lectures followed by Rock music, November 1, 2006, 7:30 PM. See the poster for the details.<Download the poster>

10 questions for Joseph LeDoux -- an interview with Dr. LeDoux.

Joseph LeDoux was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Mastery of Emotions - The Feb/Mar 2006 issue of Scientific American Mind has an article featuring Dr. Joseph LeDoux, titled "Master of Emotions"

Forgetting Fear - Both Dr. Phelps and Dr. LeDoux 's research appeared on this ScienCentral News. Read the full story.

Joseph LeDoux is the recipient of the 2005 Fyssen Prize.CONGRATULATIONS, Joe!

Joseph LeDoux received the 2005 award From New York Academy of Sciences, CONGRATULATIONS, Joe!

Joseph LeDoux and his research appeared on CBS NEWS SUNDAY MORNING --- "Delightfully Scared!" Sunday, October 31, 2004.

Joseph LeDoux and his research appeared on Washington Post ---- Tuesday, October 19, 2004; Page A01 "Is Every Memory Worth Keeping?"

Charlie Rose interviewed Joseph LeDoux in February 20, 2004

Fear: Its Political Uses and Abuses
----- A social research conference at new school university February 5-7, 2004
Dr. Joe LeDoux spoke at this conference in Session 2 (Friday, February 6, 2004, 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.).

A Science article (Science Apr 25 2003: 568-569) features LeDoux's research on fear.

Joseph LeDoux gave the Seventh Annual Swartz Foundation Mind/Brain Lecture on March 31st, 2003.Download the event flyer

Newsweek cover story --- Our Bodies, Our Fears
A cover story in Newsweek's Feb. 24 issue features Joe LeDoux and his research.

Joseph LeDoux and his research in the recent Discover Magazine cover story:
Emotions and the Brain ---A cover story about Joseph LeDoux and his research in the current issue of Discover Magazine --- DISCOVER Vol. 24 No. 3(March 2003)

Taking a Clinical Look at Human Emotions:
On a recent balmy evening, Dr. Joseph LeDoux, a professor of neuroscience at New York University, strode to the stage of the Cornelia Street Cafe in Greenwich Village and read from his latest book, "The Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are." --- Read the full article on New York Times, Tuesday, October 8, 2002

Joseph LeDoux on TEN Cover Essay and TEN Interview:
In volume 4 : number 4--Neurological Engineering : Gaining Access to the Hidden Circuitry in Human Memory and Emotion. TEN - Trends in Evidence-Based Neuropsychiatry has a cover Essay and an interview articles about Dr. Joseph LeDoux and his research.

A New York Academy of Sciences Conference(September 26-28, 2002)--- The Self: From Soul to Brain .Organized by Joseph E. LeDoux

Joseph LeDoux on npr's Science Friday :
March 29, 2002, Hour Two, in this hour of Science Friday, Ira talked with scientist Joseph LeDoux about his new book " The Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are."

Stress in the City : On January 29 Joseph LeDoux and other scientific and medical experts on stress spoke to the public on 'Stress in the city' as a result of Sept. 11.
Click the link here to view lecture video and discussion video

The New York Time|SCIENCE (NOV. 5, 1996): Using Rats to Trace Anatomy of Fear, Biology of Emotion By SANDRA BLAKESLEENOV.