Joseph LeDoux is one of the top researchers in the neuroscience field. His research has been focused on the amygdala for tens of years. Recently, I listened to a podcast episode with Joseph LeDoux and Joe Rogan (link). I was intrigued by his statement that amygdala is not the fear center in the brain. In the book he makes a very compelling argument that amygdala is part of the survival circuits in the brain. The fear is an emotion that is created by other brain structures which are higher order in the flow of information processing.
