Joseph E. LeDoux
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Sep 21, 2026
Bryan PostGUEST
So we're so...
Bryan PostGUEST
We're, in our state of stress, which Joseph Ledoux says, "In times of stress, your thinking's confused and distorted, and your short-term memory is suppressed," which is really the linchpin to how this continues to grow and exacerbate.
Bryan PostGUEST
But in our state of stress, alls we're doing is generating a more stressful vibration.
Bryan PostGUEST
So the brain of our children can only receive that stress.
Jon VromanHOST
Yeah.
Bryan PostSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Joseph LeDoux, one of my favorite neuroscientists, wrote a book called The Emotional Brain.
Bryan PostSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
He says, "In times of stress, our thinking becomes confused and distorted and our short-term memory is suppressed." Now, that was in, in the, in the late 1990s.
Bryan PostSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
In the '70s, Herbert Benson was a physiologist at Harvard, wrote a book called The Relaxation Response.
Bryan PostSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And he said that as soon as we become stressed, we constrict into survival.
Bryan PostSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
When you constrict into survival, then you jump ahead 30 years to what Joseph LeDoux said, you become stressed, your thinking becomes confused and distorted, and your short-term memory shut down.
Bryan PostSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So when you're, when you're stressed and you move into survival, you can't think clearly, and then you stop breathing.
Bryan PostSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And when you start holding your breath...
Xavier BonillaHOST
Uh, I, I totally agree.
Xavier BonillaHOST
And in fact, uh, uh, Joe LeDoux, who's a, who's a big, uh, researcher and, and, uh, he, you know, has written a lot about, um, fear and pain and things like that, he's, um, you know, he's, I think, hypothesized that emotions, because they contain an element of cognition, that e- emotions are just a type of cognition.
Xavier BonillaHOST
Um, i- in terms of emotions, which is different from feeling and sensation, but, you know, that's a whole other debate.
Xavier BonillaHOST
So [laughs] okay, so real quick, I, I want to talk about friendship because we had talked about it.
Samantha FeyHOST
Your subconscious mind doesn't know time.
Samantha FeyHOST
So everything is now for your subconscious, right? So check out this study that neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux did.
Samantha FeyHOST
He demonstrated that emotional memories activate the amygdala identically whether the threat is real or remembered.
Samantha FeyHOST
So what does that mean? If you think about a sad memory, your subconscious reacts as though it's happening right now, and it will flood your body with cortisol, reducing your energetic vibration, of course, and filling you with a lot of stress.
Juan Carlos ReyHOST
There's no little vile marked fear hidden somewhere behind the eyes.
Juan Carlos ReyHOST
Joseph Ledoux has spent years sharpening this distinction.
Juan Carlos ReyHOST
The brain can detect and respond defensively to threat without that defensive response being identical to the conscious feeling of fear.
Juan Carlos ReyHOST
A racing heart, an activated amygdala, and defensive movement can participate in the experience without any one of them being the experience itself.
Charles WilsonHOST
Is it not true? And in your experience, do we need to have this emotion component?
Tony Burgos-RoblesGUEST
I mean, we could talk all day long about, you know, what to call it, right? There has been a lot of debate in the field since the early 1990s with the seminal work of Joseph Ledoux at NYU.
Tony Burgos-RoblesGUEST
He started calling it fear reactions, right? Fear reactions to any kind of aversive situation in the environment, right? Whatever the outcome is, we could call it a fear response.
Tony Burgos-RoblesGUEST
But there has been a lot of pushback in recent years, what to call it, right? And I understand, completely understand, because, you know, like most of these or a lot of these investigations we do using animal models.
Afshan TaflerHOST
So that's well-established memory science.
Afshan TaflerHOST
It's the work of James McGaugh and Joseph Ledoux.
Afshan TaflerHOST
Okay.
Afshan TaflerHOST
So a big reaction, even in the name of teaching, can wire the pattern in harder.