Anxious: Using the Brain to Understand and Treat Fear and

Anxious: Using the Brain to Understand and Treat Fear and Anxiety

â€œ[Anxious] helps to explain and prevent the kinds of debilitating anxieties all of us face in this increasingly stressful world.â€ â€”Daniel J. Levitin, author ofÂ The Organized MindÂ andÂ This Is Your Brain On Music

A comprehensive and accessible exploration of anxiety, from a leading neuroscientist and the author of Synaptic Self

Collectively, anxiety disorders are our most prevalent psychiatric problem, affecting about forty million adults in the United States. In Anxious, Joseph LeDoux, whose NYU lab has been at the forefront of research efforts to understand and treat fear and anxiety, explains the range of these disorders, their origins, and discoveries that can restore sufferers to normalcy.

LeDouxâ€™s groundbreaking premise is that weâ€™ve been thinking about fear and anxiety in the wrong way. These are not innate states waiting to be unleashed from the brain, but experiences that we assemble cognitively. Treatment of these problems must address both their conscious manifestations and underlying non-conscious processes. While knowledge about how the brain works will help us discover new drugs, LeDoux argues that the greatest breakthroughs may come from using brain research to help reshape psychotherapy.

A major work on our most pressing mental health issue, Anxious explains the science behind fear and anxiety disorders.
Country USA
Manufacturer Penguin Books
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2015-07-14
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Penguin Books
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2015-07-14
Format	Kindle eBook

Anxious: Using the Brain to Understand and Treat Fear and Anxiety

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