The Amygdala

Anxiety Bites

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.8 • 666 Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2022

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Jen talks to acclaimed Professor of Neural Science, Joseph LeDoux about how memory shapes our emotions, the limitations of anxiety medication, why people are not getting it right when they call the amygdala the "fear center", and Joseph talks about his band The Amygdaloids.

Joseph LeDoux has been working on the link between emotion, memory, and the brain since the 1990s. He's credited with putting the amygdala in the spotlight and making this previously esoteric subcortical brain region a household term.

LeDoux founded the Emotional Brain Institute (EBI). He’s also a professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at NYU Langone Medical Center.

For more information on Joseph LeDoux and his books go here: https://joseph-ledoux.com

and to check out Joseph's band The Amygdaloids go here: http://www.amygdaloids.com/music/

For more information on Jen Kirkman, the host of Anxiety Bites, please go here: https://jenkirkman.bio.link

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0:00.0	You're listening to an IHeart podcast.
0:04.8	The Made for This Mountain Podcast exists to empower listeners to rise above their inner
0:10.5	struggles and face the mountain in front of them.
0:13.1	So during Mental Health Awareness Month, tune into the podcast, focus on your emotional
0:17.4	well-being, and then climb that mountain.
0:20.0	You will never be able to change or grow through the thing that you refuse to identify.
0:24.0	The thing that you refuse to say, hey, this is my mountain.
0:26.8	This is the struggle.
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0:36.7	I want you to ask yourself right now, how am I actually doing? Because it's a question that
0:41.3	we rarely ask ourselves. All of May is actually Mental Health Awareness Month and on the
0:45.6	psychology of your 20s, we are taking a vulnerable look at why mental health is so hard to talk
0:51.6	about. Prepare for our conversations to go deep. I spent the majority of my teenage years and my 20s,
0:57.5	just feeling absolutely terrified.
0:59.7	I had a panic attack on a conference call.
1:02.1	Knowing that she had six months to live,
1:03.5	I was no longer pretending that this was my best friend.
1:05.7	So this mental health awareness month,
1:07.1	take that extra bit of care of your well-being.
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