| The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life |
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Tuesday, October 02 2007, 8:00pm - 10:00pm |
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Joseph LeDoux, PhD
Joyous, afraid, sad, disgusted, mad, in love. Our emotions dominate our mental life and behavior. How does the brain make our emotions possible? Can we control our emotions or do they control us? What underlies feelings? Is there more to emotions than meets the mind’s eye? LeDoux, a leading authority in neural science, will address these questions, present fascinating findings about our familiar yet mysterious emotions, and show us how to understand or even change our emotional makeup. Many common psychiatric problems such as phobias or post traumatic stress disorder involve malfunctions in the way emotional systems learn and remember.
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Location: 83 Spring Street |
