Joe's new book is a memoir
Joe's Career Celebration
Will be there soon.
October 8, 2025
Globe Newswire
Brain & Behavior Research Foundation Awards 2025 Outstanding Achievement Prizes to Five Leading Psychiatric Researchers
AUTHOR ᐧ NEUROSCIENCE
October 4, 2025
Respira.re
Neuroscience: LeDoux's theory of the four worlds revolutionizes the understanding of the ego (in Italian)
August 29, 2025
The Eunice News
Son of a Eunice bull rider, now a neuroscientist, plans a homecoming
AUTHOR ᐧ NEUROSCIENCE ᐧ MUSIC
October 10, 2024
Universidade Fernando Pessoa
Doutoramento Honoris Causa atribuído a Joseph E. LeDoux
NEUROSCIENCE
September 6, 2024
Psychology Today
Emotions Are Key to Understanding Consciousness
July 24, 2023
Publishers Weekly
The Four Realms of Existence: A New Theory of Being Human - LeDoux's new book received a great review from Publishers Weekly
BOOKS
July 21, 2023
Hurleyville Performing Arts Centre
Film screening - Neuroscience & Emotions: The Life, Work & Music of Dr. Joseph LeDoux
NEUROSCIENCE ᐧ MUSIC
July 18, 2023
TSL
Art, Neural Science, and Music: A Discussion with Nancy Princenthal and Joseph LeDoux
June 28, 2023
The Economist
Thousands of species of animals probably have consciousness
June 22, 2023
ASSC
The 26th annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness
May 9, 2023
news.com.au
TV advertisement instructing how to survive a mass shooting proves the US has a massive problem
May 5, 2023
NYU Arts & Science
Effects of exercise on anxiety avoidance behavior and brain activity in rodents
April 28, 2023
Karolinska Institute, Sweden
Heavy Mental: Music about Mind and Brain and Mental Disorders
Nyheter.ki.se
Music about Mind and Brain and Mental Disorders
Philosophical Psychology
The Deep History of Ourselves symposium
April 27, 2023
Biology, Psychology, and Life: Connecting the Dots
April 11, 2023
ScienceABC.com
Are Simpler Life Forms Conscious?
January 27, 2023
Knockout Noise
Neuroscience & Emotions: The Life, Work & Music of Dr. Joseph LeDoux
NEUROSCIENCE ᐧ BOOKS ᐧ MUSIC
January 23, 2023
Current Biology
Joseph LeDoux Q&A
November 30, 2022
NYU
Dean’s Undergraduate Research Fund Grant for Fall 2022
November 22, 2022
Trends in Neurosciences (TINS)
The tricky business of defining brain functions
November 21, 2022
Daily Nous
Progress at Philosophical Psychology
November 17, 2022
Front. Mol. Neurosci.
The modulation of emotional and social behaviors by oxytocin signaling in limbic network
Emotions Are the Embodied Masters of Our Mind
October 26, 2022
globenewswire.com
Casey House releases Others, a horror film created to help smash HIV stigma
October 12, 2022
Pioneer Works
Scientific Controversies No. 24: Body, Brain and Consciousness
September 13, 2022
UCL
What Happened to the 'Mental' in 'Mental' Disorders
September 9, 2022
Creating Your Future Stories
April 19, 2022
The Himalayan Times
The seven levels of emotions
March 28, 2022
Beyond Amygdala: Researchers Unearth a New Pathway to Fear
February 18, 2022
Mixture
Music by scientists (special issue) – The Amygdaloids featured
February 3, 2022
Twitter
LeDoux has been selected a President-Elect of @theASSC
January 19, 2022
Me and My Emotions - How emotions shape what we feel and do
January 13, 2022
Thought Catalog
Scream Therapy: Why Horror Movies Are Actually Good For You
November 10, 2020
theboar.org
A lab-grown brain: a mind of its own?
November 1, 2020
Press Reader
Quel salto verso la coscienza
October 22, 2020
New Italian Edition Available
THE DEEP HISTORY OF OURSELVES
October 7, 2020
Yahoo Finance
Big October Winners: CRISPR, Alteryx, NVIDIA, Quidel
September 30, 2020
Tygodnik Powszechny
Jestesmy dinozaurami
August 10, 2020
By Grant Currin, Genetic Literacy Project
Are we any closer to understanding what consciousness is?
August 6, 2020
mindbodygreen
How To Protect Your Mental Health While Taking Climate Action, Experts Explain
July 29, 2020
PBS News Hour
‘Caution fatigue’ and the stress behind living through a pandemic
July 26, 2020
Live Science
What is consciousness?
July 21, 2020
Juvenile Justice Information Exchange
Collective Decision-making Can Neutralize Politics of Fear
July 13, 2020
Publico
Joseph LeDoux Interview “All animals are selfish for survival. But we humans created selfishness in new, more cruel ways” (portuguese)
July 3, 2020
Rivisteweb
Intervista a Joseph LeDoux (Italian)
June 24, 2020
Diritto Penale e Uomo
Alla ricerca dell’uomo tra mente e corpo
June 19, 2020
Good Beer Hunting
'Read. Look. Drink' column
June 8, 2020
Thoughtful Feelings
June 2, 2020
New Version in Portuguese Available
THE DEEP HISTORY OF OURSELVES in Portugal
NEUROSCIENCE ᐧ BOOKS
May 28, 2020
COVID-19: As Ever, the Human Advantage Is Cooperation
May 19, 2020
NYS Writers Institute
Neurobiologist / musician Joseph LeDoux on anxiety and fear
May 13, 2020
Wired
Why Humans Totally Freak Out When They Get Lost
April 23, 2020
CNN
Why facing our feelings is essential for tackling our climate crisis
April 11, 2020
Thrive Global
Fear Is Our Public Friend and Our Private Foe
March 18, 2020
straight.com
COVID-19: The amygdala detects and responds to danger, but the conscious mind experiences fear
March 13, 2020
PNAS
A little history goes a long way toward understanding why we study consciousness the way we do today
March 11, 2020
92Y / Science Salon
Joseph LeDoux Ph.D: Danger is Ancient—Fear Is A Recent Invention
March 9, 2020
How does the non-conscious become conscious?
February 26, 2020
Molecular Psychiatry
Cover image from our paper on NE signaling in central amygdala and threat processing
February 24, 2020
A new vista in psychiatric treatment: Using individualized functional connectivity to track symptoms.
February 9, 2020
Revista La Vanguardia
La ansiedad es parte de nuestra naturaleza
January 14, 2020
Il Tascabile
“È complicato”: il rapporto tra cervello, coscienza e emozioni umane
December 31, 2019
Big Think
5 neuroscience reality checks, from a top neuroscientist
December 13, 2019
Deep History of Ourselves
The Deep History of Ourselves nominated for the 2020 PEN America Literary Awards
November 19, 2019
NYU News
Twenty-two NYU Professors Make List of Most Influential Researchers
October 7, 2019
Evolution of thought and emotion (citation of The Deep History of Ourselves)
September 29, 2019
Mentelocale.it
Conscious brain and subjective experience of emotions. Implications for the treatment of anxiety and panic disorders
September 25, 2019
Brain World Magazine
How We Got Our Conscious Brains – An Interview with Dr. Joseph LeDoux
September 19, 2019
NASDAQ/Yahoo Finance
Where Does Your Fear Come From?
September 16, 2019
Joseph LeDoux on The Deep History of Ourselves – Why do humans experience fear? How do other organisms respond to danger?
September 11, 2019
Rubin Museum
THE POWER OF A SINGLE CELL: THE DEEP HISTORY OF OURSELVES. JOSEPH LEDOUX + JEFFREY SACHS
September 9, 2019
Science Book Review
An eminent fear researcher argues for an about-face in how we conceive of emotions
September 5, 2019
Newsweek
Scientists' Understanding of Anxiety is Radically Evolving — But How Long Will it Take for Treatments to Catch Up?
September 4, 2019
Aeon
Can our self-conscious minds save us from our selfish selves?
August 29, 2019
Nautilus
Human Emotions Are Personal Narratives
The Tricky Problem with Other Minds
August 19, 2019
One Grand Books
The Deep History of Ourselves – Book launch announcement
June 12, 2019
NCR Online
Confronting the 'monarchy of fear' with spiritual resistance
June 5, 2019
Performance Space New York
Lecture announcement: As soon as there was life, there was danger
May 11, 2019
Kirkus Reviews
The first review of The Deep History of Ourselves
April 23, 2019
National Sawdust
Silence & Memory
February 4, 2019
Nature Human Behaviour
Opportunities and challenges for a maturing science of consciousness
December 5, 2018
Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences
Editorial overview: Survival behaviors and circuits
September 11, 2018
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Layin’ Down Grooves on the Tenure Track: the Wide World of Faculty Bands
June 6, 2018
On Fear, Emotions, and Memory: An Interview with Dr. Joseph LeDoux
April 26, 2018
Spectrum
Silence and Memory: An Exploration of Music, Mind and Brain
April 23, 2018
Sainsbury Wellcome Centre
Have we misunderstood fear and anxiety?
April 6, 2018
Newsweek Polska
Consciousness raises fear: An interview with Joseph LeDoux (Polish)
April 4, 2018
Center for Neural Science, NYU
Memory Integration: an Alternative to the Consolidation/Reconsolidation Hypothesis
March 29, 2018
Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Surviving threats: neural circuit and computational implications of a new taxonomy of defensive behaviour
March 7, 2018
Smithsonian Associates
Facing Fear
March 2, 2018
Graduate Center, CUNY
The Social Brain, Culture, and the Self
February 26, 2018
NYU The Emotional Brain Institute
Richard Brown - Neuroscience and Contemporary Theories of Consciousness
February 10, 2018
NPSA Association
Anxiety
February 2, 2018
Yale Books
The Elusive Brain: Literary Experiments in the Age of Neuroscience
January 22, 2018
artnews.com
Nene Humphrey at Lesley Heller Workspace, New York
dana.org
Know Thyself: Well-Being and Subjective Experience
January 10, 2018
Lesley Heller Workspace
Nene Humphrey: Transmission
December 8, 2017
Scientific American
Do Genes Direct Our Behavior?
December 6, 2017
ScienceDirect
The subjective experience of emotion: a fearful view
November 14, 2017
NYU Center for Mind, Brain and Consciousness
Animal Consciousness
October 19, 2017
The New York Times
Simple Ways to Be Better at Remembering
September 25, 2017
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
Pavlovian Extinction and Recovery Effects in Aversive Pavlovian to Instrumental Transfer
August 4, 2017
Peabody Essex Museum
It's Alive!: Classic Horror and Sci-Fi Movie Posters from the Kirk Hammett Collection
August 1, 2017
Additude Magazine
The Mystery Of ADHD Motivation, Solved
April 24, 2017
The Washington Post
We already know what President Trump will say if terrorists strike in the U.S
March 30, 2017
Classic Horror and Sci-Fi Art from the Kirk Hammett Collection
March 28, 2017
National Academy of Sciences
A Higher-Order Theory of Emotional Consciousness
March 16, 2017
Cell
Semantics, Surplus Meaning, and the Science of Fear
February 27, 2017
MensHealth
Everything We Know About Fear and Anxiety Might Be Wrong
February 19, 2017
Conscious Entities
Fear and HOROR
February 17, 2017
Joseph LeDoux Reports: Emotions Are “Higher-Order States”
bilimfili.com
Duygularin Içgüdüsel Degil, Bilissel Oldugu Sonucuna Varildi
February 15, 2017
ScienceDaily
Emotions are cognitive, not innate, researchers conclude
The Vigina Monologues (Facebook)
Neuroscience News
Emotions Are Cognitive, Not Innate
PNAS Early Edition
Medical Xpress
PsychCentral
Emotions May Be Learned, Not Innate
January 17, 2017
MTV
FEARING FEAR ITSELF AFTER THE 2016 ELECTION
December 17, 2016
Mega Event Brain Knowledge
Joseph LeDoux will present "The struggle with fear - Implications for understanding And the treatment of fear and fear"
December 1, 2016
The Hindu Businessline
Striking the right chord
What We Talk About When We Talk About Emotions - Cell editor Mirna Kvajo talked with Joe LeDoux, Cristina Alberini, and Liz Phelps about the challenges in researching emotions and whether studies in animals can teach us about them
November 29, 2016
When controversial mass shooting tactic 'run, hide, fight' actually works
November 28, 2016
seekingalpha.com
Sentiment Speaks: Answering Your Questions Of How Sentiment Can Accurately Track The Metals Market
Slate
Moments of Crisis, Should You Really “Run, Hide, Fight”?
nydailynews.com
Ohio State University urges students to 'Run Hide Fight' in active shooter situation — here's what it means
November 9, 2016
Jean Marie Delwart Foundation
Joseph LeDoux awarded the Jean Marie Delwart Prize for Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms Underlying Mood
October 29, 2016
vocativ.com
A Neuroscientist Takes Us Inside The Science Of Fear The Anxious Brain
October 24, 2016
danablog.org
The Anxious Brain
October 21, 2016
QUARTZ
Fear is often used to control us—but we can also use it to make better decisions
October 18, 2016
Nature
The birth, death and resurrection of avoidance: a reconceptualization of a troubled paradigm
AAAS
Neuroscience and Society: The Anxious Brain: The Neuroscience of Phobias
October 17, 2016
Psychiatry Advisor
Understanding Fear and Anxiety to Develop Adequate Treatments
October 13, 2016
Cronkite News
Why we love a good scare.
hyperallergic.com
A Performance Where Victorian Mourning Braiding Meets Neuroscience
LabLinks: Emotion and the Brain
October 8, 2016
Kingdablog
LeDoux: Anxiety and Neuropsychoanalysis
October 6, 2016
Rolling Stone
Why We're Living in the Age of Fear
September 21, 2016
City Pulse
Advice Goddess - Thinking Outside The Boobs and The Son Also Plagiarizes
Inverse
Does Prozac Really Treat Anxiety? Maybe Not
September 18, 2016
NYU Inauguration Celebration Week
The Mind
September 17, 2016
PBS
Joseph LeDoux features in 'Closer to Truth'
September 10, 2016
The Times of India
New study to help you treat fear and anxiety
September 9, 2016
eurekalert.org
Researchers outline barriers to treating fear and anxiety
American J. Psychiatry
Using Neuroscience to Help Understand Fear and Anxiety: A Two-System Framework
National Institute of Mental Health
Circuitry for Fearful Feelings, Behavior Untangled in Anxiety Disorders
August 9, 2016
Division 1
"Anxious" received the 2016 William James Book Award
April 21, 2016
Atlas Obscura
Odyssey of the Mind: The Unconscious Is Less Mysterious But No Less Important Than You Thought
March 30, 2016
cogneurosociety.org
Rocking Out for CNS 2016
March 4, 2016
clomedia.com
When Emotions Hijack Your Rational Response
February 9, 2016
cmbc.emory.edu
Conference explores 'Foundations of Emotions in Mind, Brain and Culture'
January 14, 2016
Project Syndicate
Getting Anxiety Right
December 25, 2014
Al Jazeera
The neuroscience of nostalgia — strong holiday memories explained
December 22, 2014
MedPageToday
The Amygdaloids: NYU Docs Rock the House
December 19, 2014
The Fly Room
December 16, 2014
Live in NYC
You're the Expert
December 14, 2014
Identificado el mecanismo que graba el miedo en el cerebro
El País
December 11, 2014
Huffington Post
Why Painful Memories Linger
December 8, 2014
Neurosciencenews.com
Shedding New Light on the Formation of Emotional Fear Memories
Hebbian and neuromodulatory mechanisms interact to trigger associative memory formation
nyu.edu
Scientist Shed New Light on How Bad Experience to Change the Brain to Produce Memories
October 17, 2014
Emotion in the Arts and Sciences
October 10, 2014
LeDoux Lab
Good luck on your new Journey, Linnaea! One of the core scientists of our lab during the last several years, Dr. Linnaea Ostroff, has taken a position as an Assistant Investigator at the Allen Institute for Brain Science
October 6, 2014
Karolinska Institutet
Congratulations from the LeDoux Lab to John O'Keefe, May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser for their well-deserved Nobel Prize !!!
June 30, 2014
Free Will: Is Your Brain the Boss of You? [Video]
December 31, 2013
ledouxlab.tumblr.com
Can Outliers Help Us Understand the Average Brain?
December 22, 2013
Pavlovian-to-Instrumental Transfer: How a Cue can Drive Behavior
December 18, 2013
Today we celebrate Dr. Hillary Schiff and her successful dissertation defense. Well done, Hillary! Congratulations Dr. Hillary Schiff! We're so proud of you.
HAPPY HOLIDAYS! The Amygdaloids entertained EBI and LeDouxlab's joint holiday party at Cantina Royal in Williamsburg.
December 10, 2013
Gumbo, Fear and Rock-n-Roll
December 9, 2013
Emotion Researcher
Joe LeDoux: The Emotional Brain, Gumbo and the Amygdaloids
December 2, 2013
How the Prefrontal Cortex and the Amygdala Compete to Keep You Safe
November 26, 2013
pnas.org
Development of an aversive Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer task in rat
November 25, 2013
Orexin/hypocretin system modulates amygdala-dependent threat learning through the locus coeruleus
Extinction during reconsolidation of threat memory diminishes prefrontal cortex involvement
November 19, 2013
The LeDoux Lab launches its blog on Tumblr with Joe's first post: An Emotional Brain is a Hard Thing to Tame
An Emotional Brain is a Hard Thing to Tame
November 9, 2013
cns.nyu.edu
Abstracts (SfN 2013)
CNS.NYU.edu
LeDouxlab at 2013 SfN - Abstracts
October 31, 2013
Science Magazine
The Science of Fear - Join neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux for a live chat on Thursday, 31 October, at 3 p.m.
October 10, 2013
NYU Emotional Brain Institute
Brain, Mind, Meditation: An Event Sponsored by NYU's Emotional Brain Institute
May 30, 2013
Business Wire
Yadin Dudai has been awarded the Fondation IPSEN Neuronal Plasticity Prize for 2013
April 30, 2013
Joseph LeDoux is elected to the National Academy of Sciences
March 8, 2013
New York University
EVENING OF EMOTION IN THE ARTS AND SCIENCES
March 7, 2013
Once More With Feeling: The Emotional Brain, the Actor and the Audience
February 2, 2013
NYU Local
This Week In Geek: Joseph E. LeDoux
January 28, 2013
What Is Consciousness? Go to the video!
January 15, 2013
The Emotional Brain: Nene Humphrey in dialogue with Joseph LeDoux
October 25, 2012
Motherboard
An Interview with Joe LeDoux
October 23, 2012
Minnesota Public Radio
Joseph LeDoux on The Daily Circuit
September 23, 2012
Pavlovian Society
Joseph LeDoux has received the 2012 Gantt Medal
September 10, 2012
On fear, emotions and memory
November 1, 2011
Scholarpedia
Joe's article on The Amygdala
June 14, 2011
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
Music and the brain, literally
June 13, 2011
Trends in Cognitive Sciences
The flip side: scientists who rock
April 29, 2011
American Philosophical Society
Karl Spencer Lashley Award
March 8, 2011
March 7, 2011
February 2, 2011
January 28, 2011
Scientific American Observations
October 20, 2010
The New York Academy of Sciences
Joe Wins American Psychological Association’s Distinguished Scientific Award
October 8, 2010
thebeautifulbrain.com
Part 6: Brainstorm
TheBeautifulBrain.com
Joe's Latest Dispatch on TheBeautifulBrain.com: Part 6 Brainstorm
September 27, 2010
DanaPress
Bringing do-it-yourself science to the masses
July 23, 2010
The Beautiful Brain Blog
Part 5: Crime of Passion
July 15, 2010
Part 4: How Free is Your Will
July 8, 2010
Part 3: Glue
July 1, 2010
Part 2: Mind Over Matter
June 29, 2010
Part 1: Fearing
April 26, 2010
Well Tuned Guitars and Highly Strung People
April 24, 2010
Rocking the Brainwave Series to its Finish
April 19, 2010
How We Get Highly Strung
BOOKS ᐧ NEUROSCIENCE
January 26, 2010
Icarus Films / ARTE
The Hidden Face of Fear (film)
June 12, 2009
The Huffington Post
Guns, Germs and Squeals
June 8, 2009
How does your brain work?
March 3, 2009
Rock-It Science Festival
This IS Rock-It Science: Scientists to rock out March 3, NYC
January 1, 2009
Union Hall's Secret Science Club
The Amygdaloids at Union Hall's Secret Science Club
MUSIC
Discover Science
Interview Joe LeDoux - Discover Magazine Video
Joe's Blog Series on Beautiful Brain: Inside the Brain, Behind the Music
December 31, 2008
The Kennedy Center
The Amygdaloids play The Kennedy Center (January 3, 2008)
November 12, 2008
NYAS
Fearful Brains in an Anxious World
October 27, 2008
Factoring Fear: What Scares Us and Why
May 1, 2008
NYU Alumni Magazine
Anxiety on the Brain
January 11, 2008
Science: A short story on Dr. LeDoux's band (Newsmakers column)
January 1, 2008
Nature Books & Arts
LeDoux's research and his band The Amygdaloids at the Brainwave Festival
December 26, 2007
Popular Science
Can Fear Be Forgotten?
October 11, 2007
Washington Square News
Drug may soothe bad memories
October 10, 2007
NYU Public Affairs
“Why Do We Feel So Afraid?”
October 2, 2007
New York Open Center
The Emotional Brain
October 1, 2007
Science, Music & Your Brain
July 25, 2007
Salon
Joseph LeDoux's heavy mental (Interview)
July 24, 2007
Heavy Mental: The Message is in the Music
May 1, 2007
Joseph LeDoux Graduation Speech
April 16, 2007
NEW INSTITUTE ESTABLISHED TO STUDY BRAIN'S EMOTIONAL FUNCTIONS
March 19, 2007
Graduate School of Arts and Science Events and Traditions
NYU Scientists Perform at Cornelia Street Café, March 19th
March 6, 2007
A Band of Scientists Who Really Are a Band
March 5, 2007
Wipe out a single memory
March 4, 2007
NYU Scientists Perform at Cornelia Street Café, March 4th
January 5, 2007
FORWARD
Message in The Music
November 1, 2006
A Night of Mental Disorder
August 10, 2006
Gene Expression Blog
10 Questions for Joseph LeDoux
February 1, 2006
Scientific American Mind
Mastery of Emotions
January 1, 2006
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Joseph LeDoux was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
January 1, 2005
Fondation Fyssen
Joseph LeDoux is the recipient of the 2005 Fyssen Prize
ScienCentral
Forgetting Fear
New York Academy of Sciences
Joseph LeDoux received the 2005 award From New York Academy of Sciences
October 31, 2004
CBS News
Joseph LeDoux and his research appeared on CBS NEWS SUNDAY MORNING "Delightfully Scared!Delightfully Scared!"
October 19, 2004
Washington Post
Joseph LeDoux and his research appeared on the article "Is Every Memory Worth Keeping?"
April 25, 2003
Science
Using Rats to Trace Anatomy of Fear, Biology of Emotion
March 1, 2003
Discover Magazine
Emotions and the Brain
February 24, 2003
Our Bodies, Our Fears
October 8, 2002
New York Times
A CONVERSATION WITH/Joseph LeDoux; Taking a Clinical Look at Human Emotions
January 1, 2002
TEN - Trends in Evidence-Based Neuropsychiatry
Joseph LeDoux on TEN Cover Essay and Interview. Neurological Engineering : Gaining Access to the Hidden Circuitry in Human Memory and Emotion.
November 5, 1996
New York Times Science
January 1, 1970
PNAS Nexus
Generative adversarial model of intrusive imagery in the human brain
