This month's episode of Brain Science (BS 195) is an interview with David J Anderson from Cal Tech. We talk about his new book The Nature of the Beast: How Emotions Guide US. We talk about how emotion CAN be studied in animals by using methods that focus on brain states rather than verbal descriptions. Dr. Anderson also explains why this experimental work is essential to developing more effective treatment of mental illnesses.

This episode is a follow up to my discussion of The Neuroscience of Emotion: A New Synthesis by Ralph Adolphs and David J. Anderson in BS 151 (2018)

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Links and References:

• The Nature of the Beast: How Emotions Guide US by David J Anderson

• David Anderson,PhD. , California Institute of Technology

• Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious by Antonio Damasio

  • Damasio was interviewed in BS 189

• The Neuroscience of Emotion: A New Synthesis by Ralph Adolphs and David J. Anderson

  • discussed in BS 151

• How Emotions Are Made by Lisa Feldman Barrett

  • Barrett was interviewed in BS 135.

• Affective Neuroscience: The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions by Jaak Panksepp

  • BS 134 is encore playing of Jaak Panksepp’s first appearance of Brain Science

• See episode transcript for additional links
  

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