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BS 161 Joseph Ledoux

Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone

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The Evolution of Fear and Emotion in Humans

The ability to detect and respond to danger is inherent in all forms of life./nThe limbic system theory proposes conscious emotions arise from evolved circuits./nThe speaker proposes cognition came first, not emotion, in the evolution of consciousness.

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