The emotional brain (Joseph LeDoux) 
What happens in our brains when we experience fear and love, joy, hatred, anger and happiness? Is there a way to control the emotions or are they, anyway, to control us? The animals feel emotions? And why episodes of our children, even those who have forgotten, continue to influence our behavior adults? These, and many others for the truth, the questions that prompted Joseph LeDoux, a world-renowned neurobiologist, to write "The cevello emotional." The result is a book highly effective, able to update us on the research that led to "emotional revolution" that has spread to many different areas and disciplines, from psychology to marketing. In contrast to conscious feelings, those of which we are fully aware, emotions have their origin in a much deeper level of mind and are the result of sophisticated neural systems appeared during evolution with a precise objective: to ensure the survival of the individual. In the functioning of the brain conscious emotional feelings are irrelevant, as are the emotions to play a role. Even if it is the neural mechanisms, what triggers can change through experience. Just this - says LeDoux - is the key to understanding and perhaps changing, our emotional constitution.
With its implications for the understanding of human nature, the emotional cevello is a surprising and intriguing account of how science, neurobiology, in particular, is changing how to see - and live-our emotions.
What happens in our brains when we experience fear and love, joy, hatred, anger and happiness? Is there a way to control the emotions or are they, anyway, to control us? The animals feel emotions? And why episodes of our children, even those who have forgotten, continue to influence our behavior adults? These, and many others for the truth, the questions that prompted Joseph LeDoux, a world-renowned neurobiologist, to write "The cevello emotional." The result is a book highly effective, able to update us on the research that led to "emotional revolution" that has spread to many different areas and disciplines, from psychology to marketing. In contrast to conscious feelings, those of which we are fully aware, emotions have their origin in a much deeper level of mind and are the result of sophisticated neural systems appeared during evolution with a precise objective: to ensure the survival of the individual. In the functioning of the brain conscious emotional feelings are irrelevant, as are the emotions to play a role. Even if it is the neural mechanisms, what triggers can change through experience. Just this - says LeDoux - is the key to understanding and perhaps changing, our emotional constitution. 
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