ledoux in A Sentence

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    The one we contacted, Ledoux and Co., quoted us $300 per bar for the service.

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    Like Damasio, Ledoux is building a theory to account for the interplay of biology and culture in the making of self.

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    Like Gazzaniga, Antonio Damasio and Joseph Ledoux both identify as materialist neuroscientists, but also like him, their theories do not simply reduce selfhood to brainhood.

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    Ledoux blames some of his own work for this misconception, saying that labeling the amygdala the“fear circuit” has led to“all kinds of bad consequences in the field.”.

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    Ledoux admits that trying to change years of thinking about anxiety in a particular way is a challenge, but it's one he believes is well worth it.

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    Basically, Ledoux argues that while your brain will kick into defense mode when it detects a threat, conscious feelings of fear and anxiety don't manifest until after your body has readied itself to take action.

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    Joseph Ledoux has been credited with identifying the amygdala as the brain's“fear circuit”- the place from which it's widely believed our feelings of anxiety and fear originate- but now says that he believes anxiety and fear don't originate from a single place within our brain, but rather from many.

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    However, Ledoux argues that it's become commonplace to act as though there's no difference between fear and anxiety and your body's threat responses(often, the way researchers study fear is by measuring the brain's reaction to immediate threats), which informs everything from the way we view anxiety to the way we treat it.

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