Joseph Ledoux Quotes

#1. The neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux has shown that the same neural mechanisms mediate the fear response in all sorts of animals, from pigeons and rats to cats and humans. The idea that other animals experience similar emotions to us is not anthropomorphism: it is based on sound scientific evidence.

Dylan Evans

#2. And then, one day, my love, you come out of eternity.

Marguerite Duras

#3. Fear and other emotions are based on assumptions, presuppositions, and expectations; they are constructed in the brain from nonemotional ingredients.

Joseph E. Ledoux

#4. 6 weeks since the Rapture "Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption." Corinthians 15:50

Phillip W. Simpson

#5. Everything we think and feel (and keep thinking and feeling) creates, deep within, the brain we have.

Joseph E. Ledoux

#6. Once a genetic component has been established, the search for the genes involved can begin. This is a time-consuming and complex process that has recently been greatly facilitated by the information obtained by the Human Genome Project.51

Joseph E. Ledoux

#7. For example, one promising target is the peptide oxytocin, which has been reported to reduce anxiety, promote affiliation, attachment, and affection,33 and facilitate extinction of threat conditioning.

Joseph E. Ledoux

#8. twin studies of anxiety have revealed that genetic factors account for roughly 30 percent to 50 percent of an individual's tendency to be generally anxious or to have a specific anxiety disorder.50

Joseph E. Ledoux

#9. Acceptance and commitment therapy, a variant on cognitive therapy, attempts to teach people to accept rather than change their emotions and make decisions within the context of what they value, as opposed to letting negative feelings control their behavior.

Joseph E. Ledoux

#10. Unfortunately, one of the most signifi cant things ever said about emotion may be that everyone knows what it is until they are asked to define it.

Joseph E. Ledoux

#11. Heritability in psychiatric disorders typically involves complex inheritance patterns controlled by multiple genes that interact with environmental factors to produce their results.

Joseph E. Ledoux

#12. He'd walked into her life, and everything had changed. He'd found her; she'd found him - and all those dark places inside both of them had gotten a little smaller, a little brighter.

J.D. Robb

#13. I'm a mirror. If you're cool with me, I'm cool with you, and the exchange starts. What you see is what you reflect. If you don't like what you see, then you've done something. If I'm standoffish, that's because you are.

Jay-Z

#14. Anxiety, in short, is a conscious feeling. It can arise in a bottom-up way, driven by activity in defensive circuits or from higher processes that conceptualize worry, either about an uncertain future or about existence itself.

Joseph E. Ledoux

#15. It is not good to talk about Zen, because Zen is nothingness ... If you talk about it, you are always lying, and if you don't talk about it, no one knows it is there.

Robert M. Pirsig

#16. Emotions are a critical source of information for learning.

Joseph E. Ledoux