BS 195 Neuroscience of Emotion with David Anderson
Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone
Ginger Campbell, MD
4.8 • 896 Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2022
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
This month's episode is an interview with David J Anderson from Cal Tech. We talk about his new book The Nature of the Beast: How Emotions Guide US. We talk about how emotion CAN be studied in animals by using methods that focus on brain states rather than verbal descriptions. Dr. Anderson also explains why this experimental work is essential to developing more effective treatment of mental illnesses.
This episode is a follow up to my discussion of The Neuroscience of Emotion: A New Synthesis by Ralph Adolphs and David J. Anderson in BS 151 (2018)
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| 0:00.0 | What we're really concerned about here is not again the conscious feeling aspect of |
| 0:08.8 | emotion. We're concerned with emotion as a brain function, |
| 0:15.1 | like decision-making, learning, and memory. |
| 0:18.6 | It's a biological function that evolved over time through natural selection like other biological |
| 0:26.2 | functions and we are trying to understand the neurobiological |
| 0:31.6 | underpinnings of those emotion states. So it's really driven by |
| 0:36.6 | a biological approach to the problem. I feel strongly that the study of animals and causal neuroscience are critical |
| 0:46.2 | if we're ever going to improve medicines for the mind. |
| 1:00.9 | Welcome to brain science, the podcast that explores how recent discoveries in neuroscience are helping unravel the mystery of how our brain makes us human. |
| 1:05.0 | I'm your host, Dr. Ginger Campbell, and this is episode 195. |
| 1:10.0 | Today we are going to be talking about emotion, which has been one of my favorite topics |
| 1:16.6 | ever since I started back in 2006. |
| 1:19.5 | I'll be talking with David Anderson from Caltech about his new book, The Nature of the Beast, |
| 1:25.8 | How Emotion Guides Us. |
| 1:28.0 | Anderson is also co-author of the book, The Neuroscience of Emotion, which I discussed back in episode 151. |
| 1:37.0 | Before we jump into this month's interview, I want to remind you that you can get complete |
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