What happens in our brain when we feel terror?

 We live in an era of anxiety. We can see this in various works of literature, movies, and music. Joseph LeDoux's ‘Using the Brain to Understand Fear and Anxiety’ is a lecture series for those living with the anxiousness that comes with being a person in the modern world. LeDoux defines fear and anxiety and explains what happens in our brain when we feel a threat. 

 In lecture one, ‘The Scientist Who Studies Emotion,’ LeDoux explains the ‘flow of information’ he studied with his mentor Michael Gazzaniga. In the second lecture, ‘The Pathway to Fear,’ he tells us how we feel fear and how we react to threats at the neurological level. As the concepts of fear and anxiety developed into cultural memes, many misunderstandings about the reality of these emotions spread. In lecture three, ‘The Truth of the Amygdala,’ Joseph LeDoux corrects misconceptions about the fear-anxiety mechanism. In lecture four, he gives us the proper definitions of fear and anxiety and talks about anxiety disorders and the related therapies. In the final lecture, ‘The Theory of the Evolution of Emotions,’ we learn about the origins of fear and anxiety, looking at not only humans but all creatures who share these emotions.
 

 Joseph LeDoux's Neuroscience of Fear will give you a better understanding of the fascinating concepts of fear and anxiety from various perspectives, including neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, and evolutionary biology.