[RAM 2021] As soon as there was life, there was danger

As soon as there was life, there was danger
Speaker: Dr. Joseph LeDoux, The Emotional Brain Institute / NYU, USA
Date: Tuesday, July 13th at 21:30 JST
Zoom Link: https://oist.zoom.us/j/89512617921?pwd=MEpXTVgrKzZjSFhnNEE4WUw5QnVEZz09
Passcode: 991202

Joseph LeDoux is the Henry and Lucy Moses Professor of Science at NYU in the Center for Neural Science, and he is the director of the Emotional Brain Institute at NYU. He also a Professor of Psychiatry and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at NYU Langone Medical School. His work is focused on the brain mechanisms of memory and emotion and he is the author of The Emotional Brain, Synaptic Self, and Anxious. LeDoux has received a number of awards, including William James Award from the Association for Psychological Science, and the American Psychological Association Donald O. Hebb Award.  LeDoux is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the New York Academy of Sciences, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He is also the lead singer and songwriter in the rock band, The Amygdaloids and performs with Colin Dempsey as the acoustic duo So We Are.