A thorough and accessible exploration of anxiety, from a leading neuroscientist and the author of Synaptic Self Collectively, anxiety disorders are our most prevalent psychiatric problem, affecting about forty million adults in the United States. In Anxious, Joseph LeDoux, whose NYU lab has been in the forefront of research efforts to comprehend and treat anxiety and stress, explains the range of these disorders, their origins, and discoveries that can restore victims to normalcy. LeDoux’s groundbreaking idea is that we have been considering fear and anxiety in the wrong manner. These are not really innate states waiting around to be unleashed from the brain, but experiences that people assemble cognitively. Treatment of these complications must address both their conscious manifestations and underlying nonconscious procedures. While understanding of how the brain works will help us discover fresh medications, LeDoux argues that the best breakthroughs may come from using brain analysis to help reshape psychotherapy. A major focus on our most pressing mental health issue, Anxious explains the research behind fear and anxiety disorders.