On role models and Joe LeDoux.
| Autor: | Josselyn SA; Program in Neurosciences & Mental Health, Hospital for Sick Children, 555 University Ave., Toronto, ON M5G 1X8, Canada.; Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, 100 St. George St., Toronto, ON M5S 3G3, Canada.; Department of Physiology, University of Toronto, 1 King's College Circle, Toronto, ON, M5S 1A8, Canada. |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) [Cereb Cortex] 2024 Oct 17. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Oct 17. |
| DOI: | 10.1093/cercor/bhae417 |
| Abstrakt: | Joseph LeDoux is a pioneering neuroscientist who has made profound discoveries that continue to impact our understanding of the neural basis of emotion and memory, particularly the role of the amygdala in threat conditioning. LeDoux's trailblazing and elegant studies were some of the first to examine the circuit basis of behavior. His work combined techniques to trace pathways into and out of the amygdala important for threat conditioning and related behaviors. Since that time, these types of circuit tracing studies have exploded in popularity across neuroscience, and I would argue, we all owe a debt to LeDoux for this. LeDoux has made numerous additional contributions to neuroscience and, by bringing emotion back to neuroscience, has helped unite neuroscience with psychology. A gifted writer with a knack for communicating complicated scientific ideas in an accessible manner, LeDoux has become an ambassador of science who uses his love of music to help educate and inspire. Perhaps more important than these laudable scientific achievements, LeDoux is also a true "gentleman" of science, showing that science need not be a contact sport. Here, I give a personal account on why Joseph LeDoux is one of my scientific role models. (© The Author(s) 2024. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com.) |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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