The Emotional Brain

In The Emotional Brain, Joseph LeDoux explores the origins of human emotions and explains that many exist as part of complex neural systems that evolved to enable us to survive. One of the principal researchers profiled in Daniel Goleman's Emotional Intelligence, LeDoux is a leading authority in the field of neural science. In this provocative book, he examines what happens in our brains to make us feel fear, love, hate, anger, joy; whether we control our emotions or they control us; whether animals have emotions; and how traumatic experiences in early childhood can influence adult behavior even though we have no conscious memory of them.