Affective Neuroscience The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions

Name: Affective Neuroscience The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions
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ISBN: 9780195178050

ISBN-10: 019517805X

ISBN-13: 9780195178050

Edition: 2004 (Reprint)

Authors: Jaak Panksepp

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Some investigators have argued that emotions, especially animal emotions, are illusory concepts outside the realm of scientific inquiry. However, with advances in neurobiology and neuroscience, researchers are demonstrating that this position is wrong as they move closer to a lasting understanding of the biology and psychology of emotion. In Affective Neuroscience, Jaak Panksepp provides the most up-to-date information about the brain-operating systems that organize the fundamental emotional tendencies of all mammals. Presenting complex material in a readable manner, the book offers a comprehensive summary of the fundamental neural sources of human and animal feelings, as well as a…

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List price: $73.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/30/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 480
Size: 10.00" wide x 7.05" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 2.090
Language: English

Jaak Panksepp, PhD, is the Baily Endowed Chair of Animal Well-Being Science at Washington State University's College of Veterinary Medicine, emeritus Distinguished Professor in the Department of Psychology at Bowling Green State University, and the Head of Northwestern University's Falk Center for Molecular Therapeutics.




Conceptual Background



Affective Neuroscience: History and Major Concepts



Emotional Operating Systems and Subjectivity: Methodological Problems and a Conceptual Framework for the Neurobiological Analysis of Affect



Varieties of Emotional Systems in the Brain--Theories, Taxonomies, and Semantics



Neurostatistics: The Anatomy of the Brain/Mind



Neurodynamics: The Electrical Languages of the Brain



Neurodynamics: Neurochemical Maps of the Brain



Basic Emotional and Motivational Processes



Sleep, Arousal, and Mythmaking in the Brain



SEEKING Systems and Anticipatory States of the Nervous System



Energy Is Delight--The Pleasures and Pains of Brain Regulatory Systems



Nature Red in Tooth and Claw: The Neurobiological Sources of Rage and Anger



The Sources of Fear and Anxiety in the Brain



The Social Emotions



Varieties of Love and Lust: Neural Control of Sexuality



Love and the Social Bond: Sources of Nurturance and Maternal Behavior



Loneliness and the Social Bond: The Brain Sources of Sorrow and Grief



Rough-and-Tumble Play: The Brain Sources of Joy



Emotions, the Higher Cerebral Processes and the SELF: Some Are Born to Sweet Delight, Some Are Born to Endless Night



Bones, Brains, and Human Origins



Brain, Language, and Affective Neuroscience



Dualism and the Neurosciences