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Anxious
- Using the Brain to Understand and Treat Fear and Anxiety
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
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Publisher's Summary
A comprehensive and accessible exploration of anxiety from a leading neuroscientist and the author of Synaptic Self.
Collectively, anxiety disorders are our most prevalent psychiatric problem, affecting about 40 million adults in the United States. In Anxious, Joseph LeDoux, whose NYU lab has been at the forefront of research efforts to understand and treat fear and anxiety, explains the range of these disorders, their origins, and discoveries that can restore sufferers to normalcy. LeDoux's groundbreaking premise is that we've been thinking about fear and anxiety in the wrong way. These are not innate states waiting to be unleashed from the brain but experiences that we assemble cognitively. Treatment of these problems must address both their conscious manifestations and underlying nonconscious processes. While knowledge about how the brain works will help us discover new drugs, LeDoux argues that the greatest breakthroughs may come from using brain research to help reshape psychotherapy. A major work on our most pressing mental health issue, Anxious explains the science behind fear and anxiety disorders.
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- Jared
- 22-01-2017
Jargon filled but insightful
Can be a little difficult to follow with all of the scientific words related to the brain but has many valuable insights into anxiety and fear
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- Country Lass
- 01-10-2019
Tedious listening, best for the super-committed...
I had great expectations of this as a renowned equine scientist had spoken of Joseph Le Doux's work and its application to how horses respond to their environment. As is often the case trying to convey science to the masses, it sometimes struggles to come down to the level of the every day person (even one who has training in psychology.) Something was missing in it for me, and I only got a third of the way through; wish I'd returned it within the time-frame so I could've replaced it.
That said, that is only one person's view. A different person may achieve something entirely different from this work.
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