Resumen de Facing our fears
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."
