Joseph Ledoux
Professor and emotion researcher
Joseph LeDoux is a professor at New York University who studies how the brain forms memory and emotion. He is the author of Anxious.
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Born 1949 in the United States
About Joseph Ledoux
At New York University, Joseph LeDoux works in the Center for Neural Science and is Henry and Lucy Moses Professor of Science. He directs the Emotional Brain Institute at the university and also the Nathan Kline Institute. He is a professor of psychiatry, and of child and adolescent psychiatry, at the university's Langone medical school. His research centers on the brain mechanisms behind memory and emotion. He has written The Emotional Brain, Synaptic Self and Anxious. Anxious received the 2016 William James Book Award from the American Psychological Association. LeDoux is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and has received prizes including the Fyssen International Prize in Cognitive Science. Outside the lab, he is the lead singer and songwriter of the rock band The Amygdaloids.