{"id":2241,"date":"2017-04-03T17:52:55","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T17:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rifkindcenter.ccny.cuny.edu\/?p=2241"},"modified":"2018-07-18T06:25:56","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T06:25:56","slug":"joseph-ledoux-have-we-misunderstood-fear-anxiety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rifkindcenter.ccny.cuny.edu\/?p=2241","title":{"rendered":"Joseph LeDoux: Have We Misunderstood Fear &#038; Anxiety?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OpOe7QGLkPc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>Joseph LeDoux (Center for Neural Science, NYU, Emotional Brain Institute, NYU and Nathan Kline Institute) lecturing at The City College of New York, The Rifkind Center for the Humanities and Arts Lecture Series.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">_____________________________________<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">On\u00a0Tuesday, February 21 Joseph LeDoux\u00a0will speak at City College on \u201c<span class=\"s1\">Have We Misunderstood Fear and Anxiety?\u201d The talk will take place\u00a0from\u00a0<\/span>6:00-7:30 p.m. at<b>\u00a0<\/b>Shepard Hall Rm 95.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">F<\/span><span class=\"s1\">ear is generally considered a response to an immediately present threat. As a result, when scientists study fear they measure the way the brain detects and responds to threats.\u00a0 These responses are viewed as proxies for the conscious feelings of fear.\u00a0 But are they?\u00a0 In\u00a0humans\u00a0so-called \u201cfear\u201d responses can occur without awareness of the stimulus and without any feeling of \u201cfear.\u201d\u00a0 Further, in humans, different brain circuits underlie the conscious feeling of fear and the behavioral and physiological responses that also occur. This means that fear responses should not be viewed as reliable measures of circuits that give rise to fearful feelings.\u00a0 This conclusion has profound implications for how we think about, do research on, and treat problems related to fear, and its partner, anxiety.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">Joseph LeDoux<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong>is the Henry and Lucy Moses Professor of Science at NYU in the Center for Neural Science, and he directs the Emotional Brain Institute of NYU and the Nathan Kline Institute. His work is focused on the brain mechanisms of memory and emotion and he is the author of\u00a0<i>The Emotional Brain<\/i>,\u00a0<i>Synaptic Self<\/i>, and\u00a0<i>Anxious<\/i>. LeDoux has received numerous awards, most recently for his book\u00a0<i>Anxious<\/i>, which received the 2016 William James Book Award from the American Psychological Association. LeDoux is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.\u00a0 He is also the lead singer and songwriter in the rock band, The Amygdaloids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joseph LeDoux (Center for Neural Science, NYU, Emotional Brain Institute, NYU and Nathan Kline Institute) lecturing at The City College of New York, The Rifkind Center for the Humanities and Arts Lecture Series. _____________________________________ On\u00a0Tuesday, February 21 Joseph LeDoux\u00a0will speak at City College on \u201cHave We Misunderstood Fear and Anxiety?\u201d The talk will take place\u00a0from\u00a06:00-7:30 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2993,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":[],"categories":[64,69],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rifkindcenter.ccny.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241"}],"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=2241"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/rifkindcenter.ccny.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2720,"href":"https:\/\/rifkindcenter.ccny.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241\/revisions\/2720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rifkindcenter.ccny.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rifkindcenter.ccny.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rifkindcenter.ccny.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rifkindcenter.ccny.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}