164: Anxiety - Friend or Foe?
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Lucas Rockwood
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2015
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
This week, we take a close look at the brain mechanisms of emotion and memory. With as many as 25% of adult women taking some form of antidepressants, emotional health has become a huge problem in the US - and around the world. On today’s episode, Lucas Rockwood and Joseph LeDoux talk about why our emotions are constantly being spun off balance, and what it is that we can do to get in better emotional health.
Joseph LeDoux is a professor and a member of the Center for Neural Science and Department of Psychology at NYU. His work is focused on the brain mechanisms of emotion and memory.
In addition to articles in scholarly journals, he is author of the books, The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life and Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a fellow of the New York Academy of Science, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Science, and the recipient of the 2005 Fyssen International Prize in Cognitive Science.
In this Show, You'll learn:
- The amygdala’s role in our emotional life
- Fear, pain, and danger as motivators vs. positive goals
- How social media and the internet age affects our consciousness
- How the emotional landscape of animals differ from our own
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Links & References from the Show:
http://www.cns.nyu.edu/home/ledoux
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| 0:58.8 | use the code yoga body for a 10% discount. In today's Yoga Talk Show, we're going to be talking about anxiety and the reason I wanted |
| 1:09.8 | to do a show specifically on anxiety is because I just know that mental and emotional health |
| 1:15.6 | are such a big challenge for people. Just as big a challenge as health and nutrition and |
| 1:21.0 | wellness, all the other things that we talk about you know if we have |
| 1:23.8 | obesity rates at 30% we certainly have clinical depression rates nearing that amount |
| 1:29.4 | some estimates say as much as one in five one in four adults in the US or on antidepressants or |
| 1:35.0 | anti-anxiety meds so this is a really really big issue and I think the |
| 1:38.4 | tools we have to deal with these are generally pretty poor. The tools being medication, avoidance, alcohol, sleep deprivation, |
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