Toc: List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments PART I. Foundations CHAPTER 1. What Don’t We Know about Emotions? Emotions According to Inside Out Toward a Science of Emotion Emotions Are Decoupled Reflexes Questions We Will Not Answer in This Book What Do We Want to Know about Emotions? CHAPTER 2. A Framework for Studying Emotions Warm-Up: Neuroscience Questions about Emotion Toward a Functional Definition of Emotion Proper Functions and Malfunctions Emotions and Consciousness An Experimental Example Summary CHAPTER 3. Building Blocks and Features of Emotions Building Blocks versus Features A Provisional List of Emotion Properties Summary PART II. Neuroscience CHAPTER 4. The Logic of Neuroscientific Explanations Levels of Biological Organization The Concept of Mechanism in Neuroscience Testing Causal Relationships between Neural Activity and Behavior Levels of Abstraction Mixing of Terms in Neuroscience Explanations Necessity, Sufficiency, and Normalcy Summary CHAPTER 5. The Neurobiology of Emotion in Animals: General Considerations Why Do We Need Studies of the Neurobiology of Emotion in Animals? What Do We Want to Understand about Emotion by Studying Animals? The Relationship of Emotion States to Motivation, Arousal, and Drive Psychiatric Drugs, Animal Models, and Emotions Summary CHAPTER 6. The Neuroscience of Emotion in Rodents Emotion, Fear, and the Amygdala Innate Defensive Beha