SYNAPTIC SELF --- HOW ARE BRAINS BECOME WHO WE ARE by Joseph LeDoux. Viking, 2002
 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (pix-x)

1) The big one (p1-12)

2) Seeking the self (p13-32)

3) The most unaccountable of machinery (p33-64)

4) Building the brain (p65-96)

5) Adventures in time (p97-133)

6) Small change (p134-173)

7) The mental trilogy --- the mind is a trilogy, a tripartite amalgam that includes cognition, emotion, and motivation or desire! (p174-199)

    [1] Mental juggling (p175-179)

    [2] Headquarters (p179-180)

    [3] A vision of working memory (p180-182)

    [4] Orders from the top (p182-186)

    [5] One system or many (p186-188)

    [6] The "nuts and bolts" of thought (p188-190)

    [7] The Wizard of Oz (p190-195)

    [8] The revolution of the thinking brain (p195-199)

      The term "consciousness" refers especially to those qualities of human consciousness made possible by language. (p197)

      The fact that language embellishes working memory makes human consciousness unique! The essence of "interpreter theory" is that our conscious awareness of who we are depends on our linguistic interpretation --- our ability to label, categorize, or explain --- our experiences as we go through life. This is related to the "narrative self" or "constructed conscious self" idea in chapter 2 of this book.

8) The "emotional brain" revisited (p200-234)

    [1] The emotional brain and its vicissitudes (p200-201)

    [2] The credibiity problem (p201-204)

    [3] Feelings of animals (p204-206)

    [4] Emotional processing (p206-210)

    [5] A quick fix? (p210-212)

    [6] Less is more (p212-213)

    [7] Nuts in your brain (p213-215)

    [8] Putting fear in its place (p215-216)

    [9] Checks and balances (p217-218)

    [10] Of rats and men (p218-221)

    [11] Reliving the emotional past (p221-225)

    [12] Fear itself (p225-229)

    [13] Beyond fear --- the brain in love! (p229-234)

9) The lost world --- Why do we do the things we do, think the things we think, and make the decisions we make? (p235-259)

10) Synaptic sickness (p260-300)

11) Who are you? (p301-324)

NOTES (p325-358)

WORKS CITED (p359-392)

INDEX (p393-406)

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