The Emotional Brain
The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life

"You're reading that for *fun*?" "Yup." Okay so it wasn't really "fun", reading this book, and god knows it took me nearly the entire summer to finish it, but here are some crazy tidbits about our emotional brain: You know how sometimes you wished you could will yourself to feel a certain way about......more

Brief Review A prominent researcher who focuses on the “emotional brain,” Joseph LeDoux contends that, contrary to the belief of some experts, there is no single emotional or “limbic” system in the brain, but different systems for different emotions. He also maintains that the fear system, in which......more

This book was by no means an easy read for a lay person like me, though I am sure Ledoux has oversimplified it for a more general read. I don't know how much of it will I retain, I doubt much but a big takeaway was to realize how complicated our brain is and how much of the processes are happening u......more

Very good overview of an integrated view of emotions, (emotive) consciousness and underlying neurophysiological functions. I feel it complements Damasio well. I don't know if there is any more recent writing on the subject, I'll be on the lookout for it. Re-read jan 2018, raising to a 5. It's really......more

Wowza! I felt like I was reading a textbook. Definitely hard to follow at times and hard to get through.......more