Advance praise for The Emotional Brain:

"Joseph LeDoux is a superb guide to that ultimate frontier in understanding our emotional life, the brain. In The Emotional Brain he shares his own pioneering state-of-the-art research with us in a highly readable, user-friendly fashion. I highly recommend it."
DANIEL GOLEMAN, AUTHOR OF EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE

"Why is it so easy for passions to invade our thoughts, but so hard to gain conscious control over our emotions? Why are emotional memories sometimes so immediate and compelling, and other times 'repressed' and only later 'recovered' (or are they)? What goes wrong with emotion in emotional disorders? Joseph LeDoux weaves a story about emotion, consciousness, and the brain that guides us through these conundrums and makes sense of them...LeDoux succeeds in unraveling the mysteries of The Emotional Brain."
HOWARD EICHENBAUM, PH.D., PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY, BOSTON UNIVERSITY

"With clarity and convincing logic, The Emotional Brain presents a new view of emotion that is derived in large part from the author's own ground-breaking research...LeDoux shows how the study of the brain leaves our understanding of emotion richer than it was before."
STEVEN E. HYMAN, M.D., DIRECTOR, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH

"An impressive, fact-filled, provocative overview of the state of the art and science in the demystification of The Emotional Brain. LeDoux...creates a coherent view of the links between brain and emotions, thought and action, cortex and amygdala. His scientific voyage has long explored how brains make emotions, and now he shares his insights and conclusions with an engaging mix of passion and reason."
WALTER MISCHEL, ROBERT JOHNSON NIVEN PROFESSOR OF HUMANE LETTERS IN PSYCHOLOGY, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

"The Emotional Brain provides an integrative, thoughtful, and provocative analysis of current knowledge and theory of brain processes and emotions, revealing new insights into the sources of our emotions as well as the brain processes underlying emotional disorders...a delight to read."
JAMES L. MCGAUGH, DIRECTOR, THE CENTER FOR NEUROBIOLOGY OF LEARNING AND MEMORY, AND RESEARCH PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT IRVINE

"In clear, simple conversations with the reader, Joseph LeDoux guides even beginners along a constantly alluring pathway through some very tricky biology and psychology...a very current understanding of what we think we know about how our brains use, generate, and react to emotion."
FLOYD E. BLOOM, M.D., DEPT. OF NEUROPHARMACOLOGY, THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE

"In this marvelous book, Joseph LeDoux guides us in a masterly way through the current thinking about emotion, from both a behavioral and neurobiological perspective, in a clear and entertaining style that is accessible to all. The Emotional Brain gives us a new and deeper sense of our own emotional life."
ERIC R. KANDEL, M.D., UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, AND SENIOR INVESTIGATOR, HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE