Joseph E. LeDoux
[1]Joseph E. LeDoux (1949), a neuroscientist and Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology at New York University. He is also the director of the Center for the Neuroscience of Fear and Anxiety, multi-university Center in New York City devoted to using animal research to understand pathological fear and anxiety in humans. He received his Ph.D. in 1977 at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. [2]
Joseph LeDoux research is focused on the biological underpinnings of memory and emotion, especially the mechanisms of fear.
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Among Joseph LeDoux books are :
References
1. cns.nyu.edu. Joseph LeDoux . Retrieved August, 2009, from http://www.cns.nyu.edu/corefaculty/LeDoux.php.
2. Wikipedia.org. Joseph LeDoux . Retrieved August, 2009, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_E._LeDoux.
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