{"product_id":"the-emotional-brain-the-mysterious-underpinnings-of-emotional-life","title":"The EMOTIONAL BRAIN: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat happens in our brains to make us feel fear  love  hate  anger  joy? do we control our emotions  or do they control us? Do animals have emotions? How can traumatic experiences in early childhood influence adult behavior  even though we have no conscious memory of them? In The Emotional Brain  Joseph LeDoux investigates the origins of human emotions and explains that many exist as part of complex neural systems that evolved to enable us to survive. Unlike conscious feelings  emotions originate in the brain at a much deeper level  says LeDoux  a leading authority in the field of neural science and one of the principal researchers profiled in Daniel Golemans Emotional Intelligence. In this provocative book  LeDoux explores the underlying brain mechanisms responsible for our emotions  mechanisms that are only now being revealed. The Emotional Brain presents some fascinating findings about our familiar yet little understood emotions. For example  our brains can detect danger before we even experience the feeling of being afraid. The brain also begins to initiate physical responses (heart palpitations  sweaty palms  muscle tension) before we become aware of an associated feeling of fear. Conscious feelings  says LeDoux  are somewhat irrelevant to the way the emotional brain works. He points out that emotional responses are hard-wired into the brains circuitry  but the things that make us emotional are learned through experience. And this may be the key to understanding  even changing  our emotional makeup. Many common psychiatric problems - such as phobias or posttraumatic stress disorder - involve malfunctions in the way emotion systems learn and remember. Understanding how these mechanisms normally work will have important consequences for how we view ourselves and how we treat emotional disorders.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44958036754485,"sku":"ByrdShop_0684803828","price":33.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780684803821.jpg?v=1770361286","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-emotional-brain-the-mysterious-underpinnings-of-emotional-life","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}