Jaak Panksepp -selected References

Why does depression hurt? Ancestral primary-process separation-distress (PANIC/GRIEF) and diminished brain reward (SEEKING) processes in the genesis of depressive affect.

© 2011 Guilford Publications, Inc. Jaak Panksepp is affiliated with the Department of VCAPP, College of Veterinary Medicine, Washington State University, Pullman. Douglas Watt is with Cambridge City Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Massachusetts. This work was supported by the Hope for Depression Research Foundation to JP. Address correspondence to Jaak Panksepp, Department of VCAPP...

Affective Neuronal Group Selection II: The Nature of the Primary Emotional Systems

Higher brain functions are sculpted on the basis of the “hard-wired” primary emotions through the process of Affective Neural Darwinism. Here we make a tentative new proposal as to the nature of the primary emotions, based mainly on a combination of the work of Jaak Panksepp on affective neuroscience, the work of Stevens and Price on evolutionary psychiatry, and data on animal behaviour and neu...

Animal Minds Do Animals have Emotional Lives?

Neuroimaging Helps to Clarify Brain Affective Processing Without Necessarily Clarifying Emotions

S Jaak Panksepp The Neuro - Evolutionary Cusp Between Emotions and Cognitions Implications for Understanding Consciousness and the Emergence of a Unified Mind Science

USANNE L ANGER (1951) in contemplating the status of emotional processes in her own time, worried that everything that falls outside of the domain of analytic, propositional, and formal thought is merely classed “ as emotive, irrational, and animalian... All other things our minds do are dismissed as irrelevant to intellectual progress: they are residuals, emotional disturbances, or throwbacks ...