
Anxious
Using the Brain to Understand and Treat Fear and Anxiety
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Jonathan Davis
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Joseph LeDoux
A comprehensive and accessible exploration of anxiety from a leading neuroscientist and the author of Synaptic Self.
Collectively, anxiety disorders are our most prevalent psychiatric problem, affecting about 40 million adults in the United States. In Anxious, Joseph LeDoux, whose NYU lab has been at the forefront of research efforts to understand and treat fear and anxiety, explains the range of these disorders, their origins, and discoveries that can restore sufferers to normalcy. LeDoux's groundbreaking premise is that we've been thinking about fear and anxiety in the wrong way. These are not innate states waiting to be unleashed from the brain but experiences that we assemble cognitively. Treatment of these problems must address both their conscious manifestations and underlying nonconscious processes. While knowledge about how the brain works will help us discover new drugs, LeDoux argues that the greatest breakthroughs may come from using brain research to help reshape psychotherapy. A major work on our most pressing mental health issue, Anxious explains the science behind fear and anxiety disorders.
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Enthralling yet dry
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Bonus: the book gives a very up-to-date and encompassing overview of existing theories of consciousness. Do yourself a favor and stick to the book when near the beginning he seems to dismiss animal qualitative experience. This seems at first to be a self-deceiving justification for his research methodologies over the years, but it does actually go somewhere reasonable in later chapters.
My favorite brain book since The Synaptic Self
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-not what I expected
Old bible analogy
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Truly an insightful breakdown
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Amazingly comprehensive
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Comprehensive & thought provoking
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I wanted to understand anxiety better and the author could have really left out the excruciating details about the inner workings of the brain to make his point. I could take a science class in school if I was looking to study the complex systems in the brain.
Too much science talk
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Disappointed
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Not practical and quite boring
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