Anxious
Anxiety is the most prevalent psychiatric problem of our time. Decades of research have gone into probing its mysteries and developing treatments. But what if we've been thinking about fear and anxiety in the wrong way for all these years?This is the groundbreaking premise behind a wave of new research, led by the lab of renowned neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux. He believes that fear and anxiety are not innate states, simply waiting to be unleashed in the brain. Rather they are assembled experienc…
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- Full title :Anxious.
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Anxiety is the most prevalent psychiatric problem of our time. Decades of research have gone into probing its mysteries and developing treatments. But what if we've been thinking about fear and anxiety in the wrong way for all these years?This is the groundbreaking premise behind a wave of new research, led by the lab of renowned neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux. He believes that fear and anxiety are not innate states, simply waiting to be unleashed in the brain. Rather they are assembled experiences, and that has huge implications for patients. By mapping brain circuits, LeDoux explains the origi.
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- Publication Date:2015.
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- Publisher(s):Oneworld Publications
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2015.
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- Description:1 online resource (962 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781780747682, 1780747683
- oclc:ocn918622037
- LC Classification:BF531
- Dewey Decimal:152.4
Table of Contents
Cover; Title; Copyright; Preface; Contents; Chapter 1 The Tangled Web of Anxiety and Fear; Chapter 2 Rethinking the Emotional Brain; Chapter 3 Life is Dangerous; Chapter 4 The Defensive Brain; Chapter 5 Have we Inherited Emotional States of Mind from our Animal Ancestors?; Chapter 6 Let'S get Physical: The Conscious Ness Problem; Chapter 7 It's Personal: How Memory Affects Consciousness; Chapter 8 Feeling It: Emotional Consciousness; Chapter 9 Forty Million Anxious Brains; Chapter 10 Changing the Anxious Brain; Chapter 11 Therapy: Lessons from the Laboratory; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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