Someone is shouting! Ho! Do you hear? Am I howling in vain? For if one is frightened, everything makes a noise!- Sophocles, Acrisius [fragment]…the sound of a driven leaf shall put them to flight, and they shall flee as one flees from the sword, and they shall fall when none pursues. They shall stumble over one another, as if to escape a sword, though none pursues…- Leviticus 26:36-37
What does it mean to be afraid? What are the neurobiological, physiological, behavioral, cognitive/conscious, and unconscious factors involved? Do we experience anxiety and fear in ways our animal cousins do, or in ways uniquely human? Is the problem of anxiety, as Freud averred, “a nodal point at which the most various and important questions converge, a riddle whose solution would be bound to throw a flood of light upon our whole mental existence.”?
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This is a past event that happened on Saturday, May 7, 2016 2:30 - 4:30 pm.
Participants
Nouchine Hadjikhani
Associate Professor in Radiology, Harvard Medical School
Nouchine Hadjikhani, MD, PhD, does brain research at the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging in Boston, where she directs the Neurolimbic research laboratory. She is also invited Professor at the Gillberg Neuropsychiatric Center in Gothenburg, Sweden. Her initial focus of research was the visual system, which over time developed into several topics, including migraine, emotion... read more! »
Robert Kurzban
Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
Robert Kurzban is a Professor at the University of Pennsylvania in the Psychology Department. He received his PhD at the University of California Santa Barbara at the Center for Evolutionary Psychology in 1998, and received postdoctoral training at Caltech in the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, UCLA Anthropology, and the University of Arizona’s Economic... read more! »
Joseph LeDoux
Professor of Neural Science, New York University
Joseph LeDoux is a Professor of Neural Science at New York University. His work, which has spanned the topics of emotion, memory, and consciousness, and their interaction in the brain. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has received a numerous awards... read more! »
Francis Lee
Mortimer D. Sackler Professor & Vice Chair for Research, Department of Psychiatry, Weill-Cornell Medical College
Francis Lee is the Mortimer D. Sackler Professor and Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Psychiatry at Weill-Cornell Medical College, and attending psychiatrist at New York-Presbyterian Hospital. He received his MD and PhD from the University of Michigan, and psychiatry training at Payne Whitney Clinic and completed postdoctoral training, at New York University... read more! »
Eric R. Marcus
Director of the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research; Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Dr. Eric R. Marcus is Director of the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, where he is a training and supervising analyst. He is a Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He was formerly president of the New York County district branch of the American Psychiatric... read more! »