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.
How our mental states overlap with and diverge from those of other species.
An excerpt from "The Deep History of Ourselves"
By Joseph LeDoux August 29, 2019
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.
Arte TV (Oct.30, 2021): Et si la peur n’existait pas ? (What if there is no fear?) - Arte Science documentary on fear. Chatter by Dr. Joe LeDoux and others, and music from The Amygdaloids.
Chasing Consciousness Podcast (Oct.1, 2021): Dr. Joseph LeDoux - FEAR, EMOTIONS AND THE EVOLUTION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Mind-Wandering with Drs. LeDoux, Christoff, & Brown - September 27, Zoom
Quanta Magazine (August 24, 2021): The Brain Doesn’t Think the Way You Think It Does By Jordana Cepelewicz - This article quotes LeDoux's views on fear alongside other neuroscientists' input on misconceptions of the brain
Book review-ESIC 2021: Joseph LeDoux The Deep History of Ourselves: The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains. By Kenneth F. Schaffner
Current Biology: Cell Press (July 12, 2021) What emotions might be like in other animals - Joseph Ledoux
mindmatters.ai (July 2, 2021): Mind matter news: IS FEAR THE SAME THING FOR A HUMAN BEING AS FOR AN ANIMAL? - Psychiatrist Joseph Ledoux has thought about that; it’s a complex problem
(June 30, 2021) mindmatters.ai:CONSCIOUSNESS IS MAINLY A PROBLEM FOR MATERIALISTS - If you are not a materialist, there is no problem with understanding consciousness
Current Biology (June 21, 2021) Book review: Lighting up mental disorders: A psychiatrist’s stories from the lab and clinic By Jesph LeDoux
EBI Presents: Music, Health, and Healing 2:30pm – 4pm EST on Thursday, May 6
EBI & CLaME present: Emotions in the Arts, Humanities, and Sciences at NYU (Zoom recording April 16, 2021)
(January 29, 2021) "The Deep History of Ourselves" nominated for the Smart Book of the Year 2020 Award. Competition for the best popular science book [English translation], facebook.
(December 21, 2020) The Dissenter:#407 Joseph LeDoux: The Deep History of Ourselves
(December 18, 2020) The Origins Podcast: Joseph LeDoux - The Origins Podcast with Lawrence Krauss.
(November 30, 2020) Emotions, Consciousness, and Psychotherapy - Joe LeDoux with Pete Kelly on podcast: Thoughts on Record
(November 17, 2020) Decodingsuperhuman.com: Is There Hope for Anxiety? with Dr. Joseph LeDoux
(November 10, 2020)
theboar.org: A lab-grown brain: a mind of its own?- this article quoted LeDoux's view on conciouness.
(November 1, 2020) Press Reader(Book review in Italian):Quel salto verso la coscienza. Joseph LeDoux considera le capacità mentali degli esseri umani come l'esito di una lunghissima storia evolutiva
(October 22, 2020) LeDoux's book "THE DEEP HISTORY OF OURSELVES" in Italian is available now.
(Octobr 22, 2020) “Sing for Science,” a New Music Podcast That Hits All the Right Notes: In an upcoming episode, Joe LeDoux will join pop duo Aly and AJ to explore the science of panic through their song “Attack of Panic”.
(October 7, 2020) "Big October Winners: CRISPR, Alteryx, NVIDIA, Quidel" - by Kevin Cook. LeDoux's book ' The Deep History of Ourselves ' was cited in this article.
(October 6, 2020) "As Soon As There Is Life, There Is Danger" - Vidoe: Joseph LeDoux's virtual lecture in Copernicus Festival (Kraków, Poland in June 10, 2020).
(September 30, 2020 ) Tygodnik Powszechny: Jestesmy dinozaurami - An Interview with Joseph LeDoux[Polish] -By Maria Hawranek [Google translation]
(September 21, 2020) Joe LeDoux's recent articles on Current Biology
(September 10, 2020) TheBYBPodcast: The Emotional Brain. In this interview with The Lullas, Joe LeDoux discusses how the field of neuroscience has changed, some of his previous research, as well as the role of the amygdala in the brain
(September 9, 2020) Leonard Lopate with Joe LeDoux on WBAI Radio: Joe LeDoux discusses his book The Deep History of Ourselves
(September 4, 2020) stitcher.com: Consciousness and Mental Time Travel - An interview with Joe LeDoux on This Is Your Brain With Dr. Phil Stieg .
(August 10, 2020) geneticliteracyproject.org: The article "Are we any closer to understanding what consciousness is?" quotes LeDoux's view on emotion and consciousness
(July 6, 2020) mindbodygreen.com: Joe LeDoux's research is referenced in 'How To Protect Your Mental Health While Taking Climate Action, Experts Explain'
(July 29, 2019) pbs.org: ‘Caution fatigue’ and the stress behind living through a pandemic - This PBS article cited Joe LeDoux's work.
(July 26, 2020)LiveScience.com: The article "What is consciousness? " cites Joe LeDoux and his book 'The Deep History of Ourselves'
(July 21, 2020) jjie.org:Joe LeDoux is quoted in this artile 'Collective Decision-making Can Neutralize Politics of Fear'.
(July 17, 2020) ACBS: “As soon as there was life, there was danger” (PPT) - Joe LeDoux's presentation (Zoom) at ACBS world conference on Friday, July, 2020
(July 13, 2020) publico.pt(Portuguse): Joseph LeDoux Interview “All animals are selfish for survival. But we humans created selfishness in new, more cruel ways ” by Claudia Carvalho Silva (Google translation)
(July 3, 2020) Rivisteweb (Italian): Intervista a Joseph LeDoux - Intelligent systems; ISSN: 1120-9550; The Mill. Article; 1/2020, April; pp. 197-202; DOI: 10.1422 / 96289. by M Viola
(June 24, 2020) dpu:Alla ricerca dell’uomo tra mente e corpo - Intervista a Joseph E. LeDoux (Google Translate: In search of man between mind and body. Interview with Joseph E. LeDoux)
(June 19, 2020)goodbeerhunting.com: Good Beer Hunting quotes Joesph LeDoux in their 'Read. Look. Drink.' column.
(June 8, 2020) Current Biology: "Thoughtful Feelings" - an overview of LeDoux's ideas about what emotions are.
(June 2, 2020)circuloleitores.pt: LeDoux's book THE DEEP HISTORY OF OURSELVES in Portugal is available now.
(May 28, 2020) psychologytoday.com: COVID-19: As Ever, the Human Advantage Is Cooperation cites The Deep History of Ourselves in support of cooperation during COVID.
(May 24, 2020)thegreatcoursesdaily.com: Your Brain Is Not a Computer–The Many Facets of Human Memory cites Joe Ledoux.
(May 19 2020) timesunion.com: The New York State Writers Institute of the University of Albany features advice from authors, writers, and poets, including Joseph LeDoux: Neurobiologist / musician Joseph LeDoux on anxiety and fear
(May 13, 2020) wired.com: Joe LeDoux is quoted in this article “Why Humans Totally Freak Out When They Get Lost" by Michael Bond.
(May12, 2020) NYU Arts and Science will be hosting a follow up conversation around the relationship between humans and artificial intelligence, "Minds and Machines: Reloaded," as a virtual event. Joseph LeDoux will be speaking at this event on Friday.
(Apr.23, 2020) Joseph LeDoux is quoted in CNN article: Why facing our feelings is essential for tackling our climate crisis by By Renée Lertzman.
(Apr.14, 2020) Consciousness Live! S3 Ep8 -Discussion with Joe LeDoux and David Rosenthal - Richard Brown with Josep leDoux and David Rosenthal on Richard's Consciousness
(Apr.11, 2020) thriveglobal.com: Fear Is Our Public Friend and Our Private Foe - How It Helps Us and Hurts Us. By James Garrett, Founder at Brain. "....According to fear researcher Prof. Joseph LeDoux, you “freeze first; flee if you can; and fight if you must.” So freezing is our default response to fear. It’s our brain’s go-to strategy..... "
(Mar.18, 2020)straight.com: COVID-19: The amygdala detects and responds to danger, but the conscious mind experiences fearby Charlie Smith
(Mar.13, 2020) PNAS: A little history goes a long way toward understanding why we study consciousness the way we do today by Joseph E. LeDoux, Matthias Michel, and Hakwan Lau.
(Mar. 9, 2020) Joseph E. LeDoux How does the non-conscious become conscious? Current Biology 30, R191–R214.
(Feb.26, 2020) An image from our paper on NE signaling in central amygdala and threat processing was selcted as cover image in Molecular Psychiatry! Congratulations to Yiran (Joy) Gu, Walter Piper, Lauren Branigan, Rob Sears, @Elena Vazey, Gary Aston-Jones, Longnian Lin, and The Ledoux Lab.
(Feb.24, 2020) Hakwan Lau and Joseph LeDoux wrote a commentaryin in PNAS about using individualized fMRI connectivity of the amygdala to track psychiatric symptoms - A new vista in psychiatric treatment: Using individualized functional connectivity to track symptoms.
(Feb.18, 2020) Science Salon with Claudia Dreifus - Joseph LeDoux Ph.D: Danger is Ancient—Fear Is A Recent Invention. The 92d St Y on March 11 at 7p
(Feb.9, 2020) magazinedigital.com: "La ansiedad es parte de nuestra naturaleza" Texto de Eva Millet (Google English translation)
(Feb.4, 2020) "Life Is Dangerous: Joseph LeDoux with The Amygdaloids & Doc No"- Saturday, March 14, 2020, 7 PM – 8:30 PM, Spectrum.
(Jan. 23, 2020) Educational conference May 1-3, 2020: Schooling the Self - Joe LeDoux is among the featured speakers in this upcoming conference.
(Jan. 21, 2020) "How Deep Do We Go?"- The Helix Center- Saturday, February 29, 2020 at 2:30pm. At this Helix Center Roundtable, Joe LeDoux will discuss "The Deep History of Ourselves" with Karl Niklas (evolutionary biology), Kristen Lindquist (cognitive neuroscience of emotion), Gerald Hurowitz (psychiatry), and David Rosenthal (philosophy of mind).
(Jan. 14, 2020) iltascabile.com: “È complicato”: il rapporto tra cervello, coscienza e emozioni umane - Un dialogo con il neuroscienziato Joseph LeDoux. Paolo Pecere ("It's complicated": the relationship between brain, consciousness and human emotions - A dialogue with the neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux. By Paolo Pecere ) English Translation.
Joseph LeDoux What emotions might be like in other animals Current Biology, Volume 31, Issue 13, 12 July 2021, Pages R824-R829
Campese VD , Kim IT, Kurpas B, Branigan L, Draus C, LeDoux JE. Motivational factors underlying aversive Pavlovian-instrumental transfer. Learn Mem. 2020 Oct 15;27(11):477-482. doi: 10.1101/lm.052316.120. Print 2020 Nov . < Full
Joseph E. LeDoux Thoughtful feelings Current Biology 30, R617–R634, June 8, 2020 . < Full ><PDF>
Joseph E. LeDoux, Matthias Michel, and Hakwan Lau A little history goes a long way toward understanding why we study consciousness the way we do today PNAS first published March 13, 2020. < Full ><PDF>
Joseph E. LeDoux How does the non-conscious become conscious? Current Biology 30, R191–R214, March 9, 2020. < Full ><PDF>
Joseph E. LeDoux and Hakwan Lau. A new vista in psychiatric treatment: Using individualized functional connectivity to track symptoms. PNAS first published February 24, 2020
Shrestha P, Ayata P, Herrero-Vidal P, Longo F, Gastone A, LeDoux JE, Heintz N, Klann E. Cell-type-specific drug-inducible protein synthesis inhibition demonstrates that memory consolidation requires rapid neuronal translation. Nat Neurosci. 2020 Jan 20. doi: 10.1038/s41593-019-0568-z.
