Facing our fears

• Autores: Stephen Maren
• Localización: Science, ISSN 0036-8075, Vol. 349, Nº 6243, 2015, págs. 39-39
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In Anxious, renowned neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux tackles the neural origins of fear and anxiety with an eye to developing empirically informed treatments for anxiety disorders. In a significant departure from his earlier views on the neural underpinnings of fear, LeDoux carves the emotional brain into two parts: an evolutionarily old threat detection system, centered in the amygdala, and a new system that underlies the conscious feeling of fear, centered in the prefrontal cortex. Though controversial, reviewer Stephen Maren finds LeDoux's arguments compelling, and applauds Anxious as a "novel roadmap for future work in both the laboratory and the clinic."