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Anxious : the modern mind in the Age of Anxiety /

By: LeDoux, Joseph E.
Publisher: London : Oneworld, 2015Description: xiv, 466 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781780747675 (paperback); 9781780747675:; 1780747675 (paperback).Subject(s): Anxiety -- Treatment | Anxiety | Anxiety disorders -- Treatment | Fear -- Treatment | Brain -- ResearchDDC classification: 616.8522
Contents:
Preface -- The tangled web of anxiety and fear -- Rethinking the emotional brain -- Life is dangerous -- The defensive brain -- Have we inherited emotional states of mind from our animal ancestors? -- Let's get physical : the consciousness problem -- It's personal : how memory affects consciousness -- Feeling it : emotional consciousness -- Forty million anxious brains -- Changing the anxious brain -- Therapy : lessons from the laboratory -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: Anxiety is all around us: phobias, panic, post-traumatic stress, OCD. Why are our brains so anxious? And what can we do about it? Using cutting-edge research from his lab, neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux explains both how fear and anxiety are natural, adaptive ways of dealing with challenges and opportunities, and how they become pathological states.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-452) and index.

Preface -- The tangled web of anxiety and fear -- Rethinking the emotional brain -- Life is dangerous -- The defensive brain -- Have we inherited emotional states of mind from our animal ancestors? -- Let's get physical : the consciousness problem -- It's personal : how memory affects consciousness -- Feeling it : emotional consciousness -- Forty million anxious brains -- Changing the anxious brain -- Therapy : lessons from the laboratory -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Anxiety is all around us: phobias, panic, post-traumatic stress, OCD. Why are our brains so anxious? And what can we do about it? Using cutting-edge research from his lab, neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux explains both how fear and anxiety are natural, adaptive ways of dealing with challenges and opportunities, and how they become pathological states.

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