Joseph LeDoux is the Henry and Lucy Moses Professor of Science in the Center for Neural Science at New York University (NYU), and he directs the Emotional Brain Institute of NYU and the Nathan Kline Institute. He is also a professor of psychiatry and child and adolescent psychiatry at NYU Langone Medical School. His books include The Emotional Brain (1996), Synaptic Self (2002), Anxious (2015) and most recently The Deep History of Ourselves (2019).