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Jan 10, 2025 | 
onet.pl | Joseph LeDoux
Joseph LeDoux, światowej sławy ekspert w dziedzinie umysłu i mózgu, wyjaśnia najbardziej zawiłe tajemnice naszej świadomości i sprawdza, co czyni nas tym, kim jesteśmy. Od starożytności ludzie uważali ciało i umysł za odrębne sfery istnienia. Ciało jest fizyczne. To źródło bólu i dolegliwości. Umysł natomiast jest psychiczny. Spostrzega, pamięta, myśli, wierzy, czuje i wyobraża sobie.
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Mar 20, 2024 | 00087-4&sz=64)
cell.com | Joseph LeDoux
In an interview with Neuron, Joseph LeDoux outlines his early work on consciousness in split-brain patients, his transition into studying emotional behavior in rodents, and his continued exploration of consciousness in books and other writings.
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Mar 11, 2024 | 
nature.com | Sara W. Lazar |Elizabeth Phelps |Joseph LeDoux
AbstractDetecting and responding to threat engages several neural nodes including the amygdala, hippocampus, insular cortex, and medial prefrontal cortices. Recent propositions call for the integration of more distributed neural nodes that process sensory and cognitive facets related to threat. Integrative, sensitive, and reproducible distributed neural decoders for the detection and response to threat and safety have yet to be established.
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Nov 17, 2023 | 
nautil.us | Joseph LeDoux
1 The Fundamental Division of the Nervous System Is Not What I and Many Others ThoughtFor me, book writing is a process of discovery. I find out how much I don’t know about a topic that I thought I knew well enough to write a book.
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Aug 10, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Donovan Ramsey |Eugenia Cheng |Joseph LeDoux |Bettina L. Love
Catherine McNeur. Basic, $32.50 (432p) ISBN 978-1-541-67417-2Historian McNeur (Taming Manhattan) paints a vibrant portrait of botanist Elizabeth Carrington Morris and her younger sister, entomologist Margaretta Hare Morris, restoring the women to their rightful place in the history of science. Born in the 1790s to a well-to-do family, the sisters grew up in Philadelphia, where they conducted scientific observations and wrote up the findings from their family home.
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Aug 10, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Carl Zimmer |Donovan Ramsey |Eugenia Cheng |Joseph LeDoux
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2023New York Times columnist Zimmer (Life’s Edge) brings together 20 captivating pieces of science journalism that find reason for hope amid despair. One among several essays focusing on Covid-19, Elizabeth Svoboda’s “An Invisible Epidemic” discusses the guilt suffered by healthcare workers who feel they provided inadequate care for Covid patients as hospitals became overwhelmed.
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Aug 9, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Donovan Ramsey |Eugenia Cheng |Joseph LeDoux |Bettina L. Love
Tanisha Ford. Amistad, $32.99 (388p) ISBN 978-0-063-11571-2Historian Ford (Liberated Threads) sets forth a riveting portrait of the “doyenne of Harlem society,” Mollie Lewis Moon (1907–1990), charting her rise from “leftist social worker to famed African American fundraiser.” Born into poverty in Hattiesburg, Miss., Mollie’s family eventually relocated to Gary, Ind., where she briefly worked as a pharmacist. She moved to Harlem in 1930 and became politically active in leftist causes.
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Aug 7, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Donovan Ramsey |Eugenia Cheng |Joseph LeDoux |Bettina L. Love
Deb Chachra. Riverhead, $29 (320p) ISBN 978-0-593-08659-9Materials scientist Chachra reminds readers of the ubiquity, endurance, and necessity of infrastructural networks while enthusiastically arguing for their public funding in her insightful debut.
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Jul 14, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Donovan Ramsey |Eugenia Cheng |Joseph LeDoux |Bettina L. Love
Vincent Bevins. PublicAffairs, $30 (352p) ISBN 978-1-541-78897-8The 2010s saw left-wing protest movements around the world shake the establishment, but accomplish the opposite of what they wanted, according to this elegiac history. Journalist Bevins (The Jakarta Method) explores progressive uprisings in 10 countries, most of them following a fashionable “horizontal” model that eschewed hierarchy, leaders, programmatic demands, and political negotiations with governments.
