NEWS
AND EVENTS
(March 25, 2012) Finding
Clues in the Fearful Brain. Joe's article
in NYtimes.
(January 24, 2012) The
Amygdaloids on “Science & U”
Barry Mitchell interviews Joseph LeDoux and members
of his band The Amygdaloids — New York City neuroscientists
who write and perform “brainy” rock music.
Their new EP, “All In Our Minds,” drops
on January 28 and is available for download at www.amygdaloids.com.
(January 22, 2012) Searching
the Brain for the Roots of Fear, Joe's article
in NYtimes.
(January 5, 2012) Hubris
and the Tree of Life - Joe's blog on THE HUFFINGTON
POST.
(November 1, 2011) Doomsday
On The Brain: DDFF 2011 by Doomsday Film Festival.
(November 1, 2011) Joe's article on
The Amygdala is responsible for more visits to
Scholarpedia from search engines than any other search
term (other than scholarpedia).
(June 14, 2011)Music
and the brain, literally - Read Joe's new
article in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
(June 13, 2011) The
flip side: scientists who rock - Read Joe's
article in Trends in Cognitive Sciences.
(May 19-20, 2011) Joe, as a honorary
guest of the
15th Kraków Methodological Conference,
delivered the 2011
Copernicus Lecture: Our emotional brains. Watch
the <video>
(April 29, 2011)Joe LeDoux has been
presented the Karl
Spencer Lashley Award of the American Philosophical
Society.
A Stockholm Psychiatry Lecture held
Feb 2nd 2011 at Karolinska Institutet: What
fearful rats can tell us about treating psychiatric
disorders (Video)
The New York Academy of Sciences
(October 20, 2010): Joe
Wins American Psychological Association’s Distinguished
Scientific Award.
(October 8, 2010) Joe's Latest
Dispatch on TheBeautifulBrain.com:
Part 6 “Brainstorm”
Bringing
do-it-yourself science to the masses - An
Article about a mega science fair 'World Maker
Faire' hosted by the New York Hall of Science
and a Dana grantee. Joe LeDoux, joined by Ward
White and Noah Hutton, played in the Rock-It
Science Cabaret (Sept. 27, 2010).
(July 09, 2010 ) Joe and
his band Amygdaloids on NPR's
SCIENCE FRIDAY.
Joe's Blog Series on Beautiful
Brain: Inside the Brain, Behind the
Music
-- Part
1: “Fearing” ( June 29, 2010)
-- Part
2 “Mind Over Matter” (July 1, 2010)
-- Part
3 "Glue" (July 8,2010)
-- Part
4 “How Free is Your Will” (July
15, 2010)
-- Part
5 “Crime of Passion” (July 23,
2010)
-- Part
6 “Brainstorm”
(October 8, 2010)
Joe LeDoux discusses emotion,
memory, and the brain on Big Think– 6.24.10.
--Watch's
Joe's Interview on Big Think.
May 27, 2010 Joe LeDoux
is on Charlie Rose
Brain Series Episode Eight.
Well
Tuned Guitars and Highly Strung People : New
Huffington Post Blog about Joe's evening with Lenny
Kaye at the Rubin Museum (April 26, 2010)
Rocking
the Brainwave Series to its Finish- Joseph
LeDoux and Guitarist Lenny Kaye of the Patti Smith
Band in the conclusion of the 2010 Brainwave Series.
(April 24, 2010 by Noah Hutton). View <Photos>
by Michael
Palma for the Rubin Museum of Art.
Upcoming event: Sunday.
June 6, 2010 in Cornelia
St Cafe , Joe and Daniela will lecture
on Fear, followed by The Amygdaloids' performance.
April 19, 2010 at 7 pm: How
We Get Highly Strung,
an evening with Lenny Kaye and Joseph LeDoux at the
Rubin Museum.
Talk and music. <Photos>
by Michael
Palma for the Rubin Museum of Art
The Emotional Brain - The Mysterious
Underpinnings of Emotional Life
Joe gave a lecture in 2010
Brain Awareness Lecture Series and then
performed some
Amygdaloids songs. Watch the <Video>
(March 1, 2010)
This month’s PODCAST features
an interview with Joseph LeDoux(Feb.5th, 2010):
The
Neuroscience Rocker: Inside the LeDoux Lab
*A
conference on emotion regulation: March 2-3,
2009 Time: 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Park Central Hotel
Ballroom, 870 Seventh Avenue, New York, New York 10019.
Following the conference a music festival featuring
science bands and special guest artists will take
place.
*Fearful
Brains in an Anxious World: (Nov 11, 2008
• 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM) An Evening with Joseph LeDoux
An Evening with Joseph LeDoux. Sponsored by: Science
& the City. Listen the<Audio>
and View the<slide
show>.
*Factoring
Fear: What Scares Us and Why (October 27,
2008 ). An article on LeDoux's work from Scientific
American.
*April 3, 2008. The Amygdaloids are not rocket
scientists but brain scientists who rock-it. Watch
the <video>
for a short lecture on Emotion, Memory and the
Brain by Dr.Joseph LeDoux followed by songs performed
by The Amygdaloids at 92nd
Y.
*LeDoux's research and his band
The Amygdaloids are among Brainwave
festival events running across New York
City until June -- Read the Article
in Nature Books & Arts column.
*Science current issue(Jan.11,
2008) has a short story on Dr. LeDoux's band in the
Newsmakers column. Read the article
Here. (PDF)
*Can
Fear Be Forgotten?
POPULAR SCIENCE
features LeDoux and his research (Dec.26,
2007).
*Drug
may soothe bad memories:(Oct.11, 2007) Washington
Square News Features Joseph LeDoux's research.
*“Why
Do We Feel So Afraid?” - Topic of Joseph
LeDoux Lecture, Oct. 10
*Science,
Music & Your Brain - Click
here
to watch the video(Monday, October 1,
2007).
*The
Emotional Brain -- A Lecture by Joseph
LeDoux at the New York Open Center (Tuesday, October
2, 8pm)
*Joseph
LeDoux's heavy mental
-- Jonathan Cott and Karen Rester interview Joe
for Salon.Com about his research and
The Amygdaloids. Jonathan is author of "On the
Sea of Memory: A Journey From Forgetting to Remembering,"
editor of "Bob Dylan: The Essential Interviews."
He also did John Lennon's last interview, and has
interviewed numerous other musicians. Karen Rester
is a free-lance writer working on her first novel
(July 25, 2007).
*Heavy Mental: The Message is
in the Music -- Arianna Huffington Blog Site
Features Amygdaloids. Read the Article
on the Huffington Post
(July 24, 2007).
*Radio Lab, Friday, June 08,
2007, an NPR program, interviewed Joe LeDoux
about "Memory
and Forgetting". Available as a podcast
too. Listen
to the whole show .
*Henry and Lucy Moses Professor of
Science Joseph LeDoux
gave a speech to the class of 2007 at the graduation
ceremony for NYU's College
of Arts and Science at Madison Square Garden.
Following his speech, LeDoux and his band, The
Amygdaloids, performed for the crowd of graduates
and their families. Read the <Speech>
*NEW
INSTITUTE ESTABLISHED TO STUDY BRAIN'S EMOTIONAL FUNCTIONS.
Monday, April 16, 2007
*Wipe
out a single memory-A news story about our
recent study from Nature.com.
*A
Band of Scientists Who Really Are a Band - An
article in The New
York Times.<Read
the article>
*The Amygdaloids performed as
part of the Entertaining Science Cabaret at Cornelia
Street Café on Sunday, Mar. 4, 2007 at 6PM.
Click here
for the details.
Wired
to get wound up! Why emotions are so hard to control
(Video)---Professor Joseph E LeDoux, Professor Keith
Kendrick, Professor Raj Persaud - Gresham College
Lectures (Wed. 21 February 2007 6pm at the Museum
of London)
Our poster in TimeOut about this event
| The Amygdaloids
Neighborhood: Greenwich Village
Venue: Cornelia Street Café
Travel: Subway: A, C, E, B, D,
F, V to W 4th St
Category: Around Town
Address: 29 Cornelia St
Phone: 212-989-9319
This week's schedule: March 4
at 6pm
Details: Four NYU scientists,
including neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux (The
Emotional Brain) perform original songs, such
as “Mind-Body Problem,” “All
in a Nut” and “If You Want Your Mind
to Last.”
|
*Message
in The Music -- An article on FORWARD
(Fri. Jan 05, 2007) about The Amygdaloids.
*The Amygdaloids was on NYU
Tonight news in Nov.30, 2006 (set the time bar
on RealPlayer at 9:29 min, the Amygdaloids News lasts
about 4 minutes).
*A
Night of Mental Disorder -- Lectures followed
by Rock music, November 1, 2006, 7:30 PM. See the
poster
for the details.<Download the poster>
*10
questions for Joseph LeDoux -- an interview
with Dr. LeDoux.
*Joseph LeDoux was elected a Fellow
of the American Academy
of Arts and Sciences
*Mastery of Emotions - The Feb/Mar
2006 issue of Scientific American Mind
has an article featuring Dr. Joseph LeDoux, titled
"Master
of Emotions"
*Forgetting Fear - Both Dr. Phelps
and Dr. LeDoux 's research appeared on this ScienCentral
News. Read
the full story.
*Joseph LeDoux is the recipient
of the
2005 Fyssen Prize.CONGRATULATIONS, Joe!
*Joseph LeDoux received the 2005
award From New
York Academy of Sciences, CONGRATULATIONS,
Joe!
*Joseph LeDoux and his research
appeared on CBS NEWS SUNDAY MORNING --- "Delightfully
Scared!" Sunday, October 31, 2004.
*Joseph LeDoux and his research
appeared on Washington Post ---- Tuesday, October
19, 2004; Page A01 "Is
Every Memory Worth Keeping?"
*Charlie
Rose
interviewed Joseph LeDoux in February
20, 2004
*Fear:
Its Political Uses and Abuses
----- A social research conference at new school
university February 5-7, 2004
Dr. Joe LeDoux spoke at this conference in Session
2 (Friday, February 6, 2004, 9:30 a.m. - 12:30
p.m.).
*A Science article (Science
Apr 25 2003: 568-569) features LeDoux's research
on fear.
*Joseph LeDoux gave the Seventh
Annual Swartz Foundation Mind/Brain Lecture
on March 31st, 2003.Download the event flyer
*Newsweek cover story ---
Our Bodies, Our Fears
A cover story in Newsweek's Feb. 24 issue features
Joe LeDoux and his research.
*Joseph LeDoux and his research in
the recent Discover Magazine cover story:
Emotions
and the Brain ---A cover story about Joseph
LeDoux and his research in the current issue of Discover
Magazine --- DISCOVER Vol. 24 No. 3(March 2003)
*Taking
a Clinical Look at Human Emotions:
On a recent balmy evening, Dr. Joseph LeDoux, a professor
of neuroscience at New York University, strode to
the stage of the Cornelia Street Cafe in Greenwich
Village and read from his latest book, "The Synaptic
Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are." ---
Read the full article on New
York Times, Tuesday, October 8, 2002
*Joseph
LeDoux on TEN Cover Essay and TEN Interview:
In volume
4 : number 4--Neurological Engineering : Gaining
Access to the Hidden Circuitry in Human Memory and
Emotion.
TEN - Trends in Evidence-Based Neuropsychiatry has
a cover
Essay and an
interview articles about Dr. Joseph LeDoux and
his research.
*A New York Academy of Sciences Conference(September
26-28, 2002)--- The Self: From Soul to Brain .Organized
by Joseph E. LeDoux
*Joseph
LeDoux on npr's
Science Friday :
March 29, 2002, Hour Two, in this hour of Science
Friday, Ira talked with scientist Joseph LeDoux about
his new book " The Synaptic Self: How Our Brains
Become Who We Are."
Click the link
here to hear Joe's Talk on Talk of the Nation in segment
02.
*Stress
in the City : On January 29 Joseph LeDoux and
other scientific and medical experts on stress spoke
to the public on 'Stress in the city' as a result
of Sept. 11.
Click the link
here to view lecture video and discussion video
