Joseph LeDoux is Professor Emeritus at New York University, where he was a University Professor, Henry and Lucy Moses Professor, Professor of Neural Science and Psychology, and Professor of Psychiatry and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at NYU Langone Medical School. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His work has focused on the topics of emotion, memory, and consciousness and their interaction in the brain. He has published 244 peer reviewed publications, which have been cited 182,153 times, resulting in an h-index of 177, making him amongst the most highly cited neuroscientists. He has received numerous scientific awards, most recently the 2025 Brain & Behavior Research Foundation Goldman Rakic Award and the 2026 Cognitive Neuroscience George A. Miller Award, both for outstanding contributions in Cognitive Neuroscience. He the author of several highly acclaimed books, including The Emotional Brain, Synaptic Self, Anxious (winner of the APA William James Book Award), The Deep History of Ourselves (long list for the Pen America EO Wilson Literary Science Writing Award), and The Four Realms of Existence(finalist for the Royal Institute of Philosophy Nayef Al-Rodhan International Book Prize in Transdisciplinary Philosophy). Forthcoming is his memoir, Starting Over, Tales from an Accidental Neuroscientist. Additionally, LeDoux is the lead singer and songwriter in the rock band, the Amygdaloids. His music has been the subject of a play, Map of Your Mind, and was featured in Werner Herzog’s 2024 film, Theatre of Thought. A documentary on Amazon, Neuroscience and Emotions explores his Life, work and music.