On April 3, Joseph LeDoux and The Amygdaloids presented a scientific and musical program at the Y, teaching how memories are formed, stored and retrieved in the brain by exploring the underlying neural systems that evolved as behavioral solutions to survival problems—the so-called fear system. Joseph LeDoux, professor of neuroscience and psychology at New York University, is a member of The Amygdaloids, a band made up of neuroscientists Daniela Schiller, Nina Galbraith Curley and Tyler Volk, that hopes its music makes the field more accessible to the public. In the video clip above, you get both the science and the music.

Upcoming Science Talks: Autism Update with a Screening of Autism the Musical (May 4), Mysteries of Science: Should We Go Back to the Moon? (May 14), 2008 World Science Festival: The Science of Morality (May 29) and Bill McKibben on the Environment (Jun 2)