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Teasing 10 threads fromJoseph LeDoux’…

Thread 1:

The psychological study of emotions has been extremely valuable, but an approach where emotions are studied as brain function is far more powerful.(pg. 12)

Thread 2:

When fear becomes anxiety, desire gives way to greed, or annoyance turns to anger, anger to hatred, friendship to envy, love to obsession, pleasure to addiction, our emotions start working against us.(pg. 20)

Thread 3:

It seems clear that much of mental life occurs outside of conscious awareness.

(pg. 33 )

Thread 4:

The term cognitive unconscious merely implies what the mind does goes on out- side of awareness. The dynamic uncon- scious is a darker, more malevolent place where memories are shipped to do mental dirty work.

(pg. 30 )

Thread 5:

It is difficult to imagine emotions in the absence of their bodily expressions. Fear feels different from anger or love because it has a different physiological signature.(pg. 44 )

Thread 6:

Specific emotions are produced by the combination of artificial arousal and social cues. Emotions, in short, result from the cognitive interpretation of situations.(pg. 48 )

Thread 7:

In order for behavior to occur, muscles have to move. The reasons that facial expressions of particular emotions look the same in dif- ferent people is because they are con- tracting or relaxing the same or similar muscle groups.

(pg. 121)

Thread 8:

Adrenal hormones help the body deal with stress. If the stress is prolonged those hor- mones can begin to have patho- logical conse- quences, inter- fering with cog- nitive function and even causing brain damage.(pg. 133)

Thread 9:

Memory is likely to be enhanced by mild stress, but may be interfered with if the stress is sufficiently intense and pro- longed to raise the level of adrenal steroids to the point where the hippocampus is adversely affected.(pg. 244)

Thread 10:

One of the hallmarks of frontal lobe dam- age in humans is perseveration, the inability to stop doing something once it is no longer appropriate.

(pg. 249)

Thread 11:

Working memory allows us to know that the “here and now” is “here” and is hap- pening “now.” This insight underlies the notion that conscious- ness is the awareness of what is in working memory.(pg. 278)

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