The Deep History of Ourselves:
A The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains
THE LEDOUX LAB 
My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery-- always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?"
Eric Kandel , Columbia University. Winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize.
Check out who we are and what we do
A The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains
Using the Brain to Understand and Treat Fear and AnxietyAug 23, 2016.
How Our Brains Become Who We AreJan 28, 2003.
The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional LifeMar (27, 1998)
Big Think Interview With Joseph LeDoux.
(August 19, 2019) The Deep History of Ourselves" will be August 27! Joe will be launching his new book at One Grand Books, Narrowsburg NY (conversation with Jason Tougaw). Check out Joe's Book Tour
(June 12, 2019) Confronting the 'monarchy of fear' with spiritual resistance - This column references renowned Philosopher Martha Nussbaum and her citation of Joseph LeDoux's research in the book The Monarchy of Fear: A Philosopher Looks at Our Political Crisis
(May 11, 2019) The first review of Joe's upcoming book, "The deep history of ourselves", from KIRKUS”
(May 3, 2019) "As soon as there is life, there is danger". Joe will give a Lecture on June 4 at the Saas-Free Summer Institute of Art, NYC.
(April 23, 2019) The power of a single cell: The deep history of ourselves LeDoux invites Dr. Jeffrey Sachs to explore how the development of nervous systems powered human consciousness, which made our greatest and most horrendous achievements as a species possible. (Wednesday, 9.11.19 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM, The Rubin Museum of Art)
(April 23, 2019) Silence & Memory Joseph ledoux will be part of this incredible event at National Sawdust? (nationalsawdust.org) on May 24. He will describe key findings from his research on emotion and memory and their connection to music.
(March 27, 2019) From split-brain to emotional consciousness - Joseph ledoux will be receiving a specail tribute from Italian Academy of Sciences to his work on the link between emotion, memory, and the brain. check out the full program here
(February 4,2019) LeDoux joined a group of scientists published a Comment article for Nature Human Behaviour: Opportunities and challenges for a maturing science of consciousness (NATURE HUMAN BEHAVIOUR | VOL 3 | FEBRUARY 2019 | 104–107 |
EBI 2019 Distinguished Scientist Lecture - March 8, 2019 (Friday)
(December 15, 2018) Joseph LeDoux was invited on Freakonomics Radio Live to share his views denouncing the the idea that amygdala is a fear center - Freakonomics Radio Live: “Where Does Fear Live in the Brain?”
(December 5, 2018) Dean Mobbs and Joseph LeDoux edited a special issue of Curr Op in Behav Sci on Survival circuits. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. Volume 24, Pages 1-180 (December 2018). <Editorial overview>
(August 22, 2018) Copernicus Center for Interdisciplinary Studies Published a video: "Joseph E. LeDoux, Anxious: Using the Brain to Understand and Treat Fear and Anxiety" - LeDoux's book "Anxious" has been translated into Polish.
(August 9, 2018) Copernicus Center for Interdisciplinary Studies Published the lecture video: "Putting Emotion into Consciousness" - Joseph LeDoux (The 22nd Meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC 22), 26-29 June 2018, Krakow, Poland)
(July 1, 2018) "Putting Emotion into Consciousness" - Joseph LeDoux gave a keynotes lecture at The 22nd Meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC 22), 26-29 June 2018, Krakow, Poland.
(June 6, 2018) brainworldmagazine.com: On Fear, Emotions, and Memory: An Interview with Dr. Joseph LeDoux
(June 1, 2018) Have we misunderstood what fear is? - Joseph LeDoux gave a Keynote lecture at El Aleph Festival de Arte y Ciencia in the MUAC Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo Mexico City, So We Are (Joseph LeDoux and Colin Dempsey, the acoustic group of The Amygdaloids) closes out The Aleph Festival of Art and Science in the MUAC University Museum Contemporary Art.
(April 26, 2018) Silence and Memory: An Exploration of Music, Mind and Brain - Musician and psychotherapist Cornelius Dufallo (ETHEL, Flux Quartet) will host a concert and discussion featuring neuroscientist, Joseph LeDoux at Spectrum in Bushwick on Thursday, May 10 at 7 PM - 9 PM
(April 23, 2018) Have we misunderstood fear and anxiety? - An interview with Professor Joseph E LeDoux conducted by April Cashin-Garbutt, MA (Cantab)
(April 6, 2018) Consciousness raises fear: An interview with Joseph LeDoux | Newsweek Polska, No. 15/2018 - Read the full article in Newsweek PLUS (Paid access to the full article in Polish)
(April 3, 2018) Comment on Higher Order Theory of Emotion: "The High-Order and Conscious Emotion: Assessing the Foundations, Contributions, and Implications of LeDoux’s Model of Conscious and Cognitive Emotion". By Luiz Augusto Rosa
(March 29, 2018) Read Joseph LeDoux & Nathaniel Daw's new article on Nature reviews neuroscience: "Surviving threats: neural circuit and computational implications of a new taxonomy of defensive behaviour".
(February 26, 2018) The Not Old Better Show: Facing Fear: Podcast preview of the upcoming lecture at the Smithsonian next week.
OUTSIDE-IN: THE SOCIAL BRAIN, CULTURE, AND THE SEL : Joseph E. LeDoux will share stage with Siri Hustvedt, and Jason Tougaw talking about elusive brains on MAR. 2 in the Graduate Center, CUNY. The panel discussion will be followed by a musical performance by So We Are, LeDoux’s musical duo with Colin Dempsey.
Dr. Pascale Gisquet, from the French National Center for Scientific Research, Neurosciences Paris-Saclay Institute(NeuroPSI) will present: "Memory Integration: an Alternative to the Consolidation/Reconsolidation Hypothesis" in Meyer Hall (4 Washington Place), Room 121, on April 4, 12:30pm
(February 2, 2018) The Elusive Brain : Literary Experiments in the Age of Neuroscience. Hardback English By (author) Jason Tougaw , Foreword by Joseph E. LeDoux. Publication date 24 Apr 2018; Publisher Yale University Press
(Jan 22, 2018) dana.org: Know Thyself: Well-Being and Subjective Experience . By: Joseph LeDoux, Ph.D., Richard Brown, Ph.D., Daniel S. Pine, M.D, and Stefan G. Hofmann, Ph.D.
(Jan 22, 2018) artnews.com: Nene Humphrey at Lesley Heller Workspace, New York.By The Editors of ARTnews
Joseph LeDoux will speak at the coming conference – "Anxiety". Rome, Italy | Feb 10, 2018. Joined by his band member Colin Dempsey, he will also perform a few songs in the conference opening night.
(January 10–February 18, 2018) Nene Humphrey: Transmission at Lesley Heller Workspace - As a long time artist-in-residence in the LeDoux Lab, Nene Humphrey is adept at blending art and science, considering the connection between the neuroscience of emotions and the Victorian mourning ritual of braiding the hair of deceased loved ones.
Facing Fear : Why do our bodies and minds react the way they do when we’re in danger? LeDoux will discusses the impact of recent research into the neurological and emotional roots of fear, and why it might change our pharmacological and behavioral approaches to helping people reframe this emotion. Ripley Center, Wednesday, March 7, 2018,6:45 p.m. Washington, D.C.
(December 6, 2017)My Mind's Eye: A Series of Video Interviews with Jos LeDoux. Episode #5: The Roots of Behavior: An interview with Cori Bargmann.
(December 6, 2017) The subjective experience of emotion: a fearful view - LeDux and Hofmann just published a paper to emphasize the importance of Subjective Experience in understanding what emotion is, and also in understanding and treating emotional disorders.
(November 14, 2017) NYU Center for Mind, Brain and Consciousness in conjunction with the NYU Center for Bioethics and NYU Animal Studies will host a conference on Animal Consciousness.
(October 19, 2017) Simple Ways to Be Better at Remembering- Adam Poprscu quotes Joseph LeDoux in a New York Times article about ways to improve memory.
(Sept. 25, 2017)Campese et al. have published a new paper in Front. Behav. Neurosci:Pavlovian Extinction and Recovery Effects in Aversive Pavlovian to Instrumental Transfer
(Apr. 24, 2017) LeDoux and his research were mentioned in the article on Today's Washingtonpost: Perspective|We already know what President Trump will say if terrorists strike in the U.S. By Terence Szuplat
(August 1, 2017) The Mystery Of ADHD Motivation, Solved. By Terence Szuplat - LeDoux's book The Emotional Brain was cited in the article
(Mar.30, 2017) It's Alive!" Classic Horror and Sci-Fi Art from the Kirk Hammett Collection - along with intriguing essays by Daniel Finamore, Joseph LeDoux, and Steve Almond on view at the Peabody Essex Museum from August 12 to November 26, 2017.
(Mar.28, 2017) National Academy of Sciences: The National Academy of Sciences today features guest post from LeDoux's article with Richard Brown on "A Higher-Order Theory of Emotional Consciousness" recently published in the Proceedings of the NAS.
Matthias Michel, Diane Beck, […]Masatoshi Yoshida . Opportunities and challenges for a maturing science of consciousness Nature Human Behaviourvolume 3, pages104–107 (2019). <Full>
Richard Brown, Hakwan Lau, Joseph E. LeDoux. The Misunderstood Higher-Order Approach to Consciousness. psyarxiv.com, January 07, 2019. <Full>
Edited by Dean Mobbs, Joseph LeDoux Survival circuits. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. Volume 24, Pages 1-180 (December 2018). <Editorial overview>
Joseph LeDoux & Nathaniel D. Daw Surviving threats: neural circuit and computational implications of a new taxonomy of defensive behaviour. Nature reviews neuroscience. 2018 Jan 17. <Abstract><Full>
Ann E. Fink* and Joseph E. LeDoux Beta-adrenergic enhancement of neuronal excitability in the lateral amygdala is developmentally gated. J Neurophysiol. 2018 Jan 17. <Abstract><Full>
Joseph E. LeDoux, Stefan G Hofmann. The subjective experience of emotion: a fearful view. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, Volume 19, In progress (February 2018). <Full>
Pine DS, LeDoux JE. Elevating the Role of Subjective Experience in the Clinic: Response to Fanselow and Pennington. Am J Psychiatry. 2017 Nov 1;174(11):1121-1122. doi: 10.1176/ <Full>
Vincent D. Campese, Ian T. Kim, Gerardo Rojas and Joseph E. LeDoux. Pavlovian Extinction and Recovery Effects in Aversive Pavlovian to Instrumental Transfer . Front. Behav. Neurosci., 25 September 2017 <Full>.
Joseph LeDoux Semantics, Surplus Meaning, and the Science of Fear. PNAS Early Edition Feb 15, 2017. <Full> .
( Joseph LeDoux and Richard Brownc A higher-order theory of emotional consciousness. PNAS Early Edition Feb 15, 2017. <Full>
J E LeDoux, J Moscarello, R Sears and V Campese. The birth, death and resurrection of avoidance: a reconceptualization of a troubled paradigm Molecular Psychiatry advance online publication 18 October 2016; doi: 10.1038/mp.2016.166 <Full>
