Episode · The Joe Rogan Experience · 2019-09-04

Joe Rogan & Joseph LeDoux: books mentioned on The Joe Rogan Experience #1344

#1344 - Joseph LeDoux

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Joseph LeDoux is a neuroscientist whose research is primarily focused on survival circuits, including their impacts on emotions such as fear and anxiety. His latest book "The Deep History of Ourselves: The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains" is now available.

Joseph LeDoux discussed The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

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  1. The Selfish Gene

    Richard Dawkins · at 1:27:39

    The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins is a landmark popular science book that explores evolution through a gene-centric lens, famously introducing the concepts of the selfish gene and cultural replicators known as memes.

    Discussed
    “obviously you know with Richard Dawkins said the theory The Selfish Gene”
    Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (5) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged The Emotional Brain
“in 1996 I published a book called the emotional brain and few years later I started finding out from therapists that the lot of patients were reading the book with their therapist and they were saying that it was really helping them understand why you know how different things were happening that the the amygdala was causing them to react”
Plugged The Emotional Brain
“In 1996 I published a book called the emotional brain and few years later I started finding out from therapists that the lot of patients were reading the book with their therapist and they were saying that it was really helping them understand why”
Plugged Anxious
“so you know one of the things we've we've proposed a proposes in my last book anxious was a kind of test program for exploring this where be kind of a three-part three-step program”
Plugged The Deep History of Ourselves
“so the the new book is called the deep history of ourselves the four billion year story of how we got conscious brains and you can get that on Amazon you can get the other audible on audible.com you know Barnes no I think all the major booksellers have the books”
Plugged Anxious
“last book was anxious it also has an audible version”