Praise be to Jaak Panksepp

Jaak Panksepp -selected References

1 Panksepp, J. & Panksepp, J. B. (2013). Toward a cross-species understanding of empathy. Trends in Neurosciences, 36, 489-496. Notes: Although signs of empathy have now been well documented in non-human primates, only during the past few years have systematic observations suggested that a primal form of empathy exists in rodents. Thus, the study of empathy in animals has started in earnest. He...

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...

Independence-supportive Praise versus Interdependence-promoting Praise

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 ...

Hard Heads and Open Minds: A Reply to Panksepp (2003)

In the authors’ original article (M. S. Blumberg & G. Sokoloff, 2001), they provided evidence that the ultrasonic vocalizations of infant rats are acoustic by-products of a physiological maneuver. In J. Panksepp’s (2003) comment, he sidestepped the authors’ empirical findings and focused on his concern that their perspective might prevent progress toward his ultimate goal of understanding the n...