Joseph LeDoux Tuesday, February 21, 2017 Eminent neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux (New York University) will speak about his new book Anxious: Using the Brain to Understand and Treat Fear and Anxiety <\/em>(Penguin 2015).\u00a0LeDoux\u2019s research is primarily focused on the biological underpinnings of emotion and memory, especially brain mechanisms related to fear and anxiety.<\/p>\n Joseph LeDoux<\/strong>\u00a0is a neuroscientist whose research is primarily focused on the biological underpinnings of emotion and memory, especially brain mechanisms related to fear and anxiety. LeDoux is the Henry and Lucy Moses Professor of Science at New York University, and director of the Emotional Brain Institute, a collaboration between NYU and New York State with research sites at NYU and at the Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research in Orangeburg, New York. He is the author of many works, including The Emotional Brain (1996), The Synaptic Self (2002), and Anxious: Using the Brain to Understand and Treat Fear and Anxiety (2015). He is a fellow of the American Academy of Sciences and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. In addition, he is the lead singer and songwriter in the band The Amygdaloids.<\/p>\n Imitation, Emotion, and Mirror Neurons<\/span><\/p>\n Ruth Leys Tuesday, December 6, 2016 I<\/span>n recent years much speculation and controversy has surrounded the question of the relation of emotional life to mirror neurons, neurons that fire both when an animal enacts a movement and when\u00a0that animal observes the same action by another animal. Clinicians have suggested that defective functioning of such neurons may help explain autism while humanistic and other scholars have drawn on scientific findings about mirror neurons to make sense of the empathic responses elicited by works of art, literature, or everyday imagery. Noted historian of science Ruth Leys examines what is at stake in efforts to explain phenomena such as empathy, imitation, and emotional contagion in terms of the automatic\u00a0actions of mirror neurons in the brain, and raises the question of whether people can be considered \u201cchameleons\u201d or \u201cresonance\u201d machines.<\/span><\/p>\n Ruth Leys<\/b><\/span> is a historian of the human sciences with a special interest in the history of the neurosciences, psychoanalysis, and psychiatry. Her books include Trauma: A Genealogy <\/i>(Chicago, 2000); and From Guilt to Shame: Auschwitz and After<\/i> (Princeton, 2007). Her book, The Ascent of Affect: From the 1960s to the Millennium<\/i> (Chicago), will appear in the fall of 2017.<\/p>\n Thursday, November 17, 2016.<\/strong><\/p>\n Pulitzer Prize winning\u00a0journalist and best-selling\u00a0author of\u00a0Backlash,\u00a0<\/em>on her new book,\u00a0In the Darkroom<\/em>,\u00a0a finalist for the 2016 Kirkus Prize<\/p>\n Susan Faludi\u2019s extraordinary inquiry into the meaning of identity in the modern world and in her own haunted\u00a0family saga. When the feminist writer learned that her 76-year-old father\u2014long estranged and living in Hungary\u2014had undergone sex reassignment surgery, that investigation would turn personal and urgent. How was this new\u00a0parent who claimed to be \u201ca complete woman now\u201d connected to the silent, explosive, and ultimately violent father\u00a0she had known, the photographer who\u2019d built his career on the alteration of images?<\/p>\n Susan Faludi<\/strong> is the author of the bestselling\u00a0Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women<\/em>, which won\u00a0the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction,\u00a0Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man<\/em>, and\u00a0The Terror\u00a0Dream: Myth and Misogyny in an Insecure America.<\/em><\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Understanding And Treating Fear And Anxiety Joseph LeDoux New York University Tuesday, February 21, 2017 6:00-7:30 p.m. The Rifkind Room\u00a0in NAC 6\/316 Eminent neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux (New York University) will speak about his new book Anxious: Using the Brain to Understand and Treat Fear and Anxiety (Penguin 2015).\u00a0LeDoux\u2019s research is primarily focused on the biological […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2508,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[66,64],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rifkindcenter.ccny.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rifkindcenter.ccny.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rifkindcenter.ccny.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rifkindcenter.ccny.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rifkindcenter.ccny.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1614"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/rifkindcenter.ccny.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1851,"href":"https:\/\/rifkindcenter.ccny.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614\/revisions\/1851"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rifkindcenter.ccny.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rifkindcenter.ccny.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rifkindcenter.ccny.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rifkindcenter.ccny.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/b>New York University<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/b>6:00-7:30 p.m.
\nThe Rifkind Room\u00a0in NAC 6\/316<\/p>\nThe Chameleon Effect<\/b><\/span><\/h4>\n
\n<\/b>Johns Hopkins University<\/i><\/p>\n
\n<\/b>4:30-6:00 p.m.
\nThe Rifkind Room\u00a0in NAC 6\/316<\/p>\nA\u00a0Conversation With Susan Faludi<\/h4>\n