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# Joseph E. LeDoux

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Joseph E. LeDoux is an American neuroscientist whose research is primarily focused on survival circuits, including their impacts on emotions such as fear and anxiety. He is the Henry and Lucy Moses Professor of Science at New York University, and director of the Emotional Brain Institute, a collabor

##  Quotes by Joseph E. LeDoux

> [Everything we think and feel (and keep thinking and feeling) creates, deep within, the brain we have.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-e-ledoux/everything-we-think-and-feel-and-keep-thinking-and-feeling-creates/)

Joseph E. LeDoux

[Brain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/brain/)

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> [“While I was fearing it, it came, but came with less of fear. . . . ’Tis harder knowing it is due,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-e-ledoux/while-i-was-fearing-it-it-came-but-came-with-less-of-fear-tis-harder/)

Joseph E. Ledoux

[Fear](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fear/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c13/joseph-e-ledoux-65934_fear_while-i-was-fearing-it-it-came-but-came_440014.png)

> [Emotions are a critical source of information for learning.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-e-ledoux/emotions-are-a-critical-source-of-information-for-learning/)

Joseph E. LeDoux

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3f6/joseph-e-ledoux-65934_critical_emotions-are-a-critical-source-of-inform_1102189.png)

> [One of the main jobs of conciousness is to keep our life tied together into a coherent story, a self-concept. It does…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-e-ledoux/one-of-the-main-jobs-of-conciousness-is-to-keep-our-life-tied/)

Joseph E. LeDoux

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0b1/joseph-e-ledoux-65934_bases_one-of-the-main-jobs-of-conciousness-is_1369708.jpg)

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