Joseph E LeDoux Ph.D.
Joseph LeDoux, Ph.D., is a professor of neuroscience and psychology at New York University. He directs the Emotional Brain Institute at NYU. He has won a number of top awards and prizes in the fields of psychology, cognitive science, and philosophy, including membership in the National Academy of Sciences. His books include The Emotional Brain (Simon and Schuster, 1996), Synaptic Self (Viking, 2002), Anxious: Using the Brain to Understand and Treat Fear and Anxiety (Viking, 2015), The Deep History of Ourselves: The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains (Viking, 2019), and The Four Realms of Existence: A New Theory of Being Human (Harvard University Press (2023).
LeDoux is also the lead singer and songwriter for The Amygdaloids, a rock band known for their ‘heavy mental” sound—songs about mind and brain and mental disorders.