Jaak Panksepp

Jaak Panksepp ( born June 5, 1943 in Tartu, Estonia ) is an Estonian- American professor emeritus of psychology at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. Since the late 1970s he explored the relationships between brain activity and social behavior.

Life

Panksepp was born in Estonia. His family emigrated to the United States, after the Soviet Union had occupied the country in 1940. He studied psychology at the University of Pittsburgh, where in 1965 he received the Bachelor. At the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1967, he received the Master and was in 1969 received his doctorate with a thesis on The Neural Basis of aggression. As a post - graduate student he was then until 1971 worked at the University of Sussex, until 1972 at the Worcester Foundation in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. From 1972 to 1974 he was assistant professor from 1974 to 1977 to 1977 Associate Professor at Bowling Green State University. From 1977 to 1988 he was a full professor at the University, and from 1988 until his retirement in 1998 as a Distinguished Research Professor of Psychobiology. In addition, he served as 1999-2000 Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Michigan. Panksepp is married and has four children.

Emotional systems

Jaak Panksepp is based on four emotion systems that have a neural basis. They are associated primarily with the activity of the hypothalamus. Panksepp posits that they are genetic and affect the behavior in terms of approach and inhibition. Furthermore, it is based on the feedback loops influence the sensitivity of sensor systems, so that about a behavior control can be performed. The four systems of emotion show up in four basic emotions:

• Search: Activation of the body in the direction of positive reinforcement
• Fear: response to stimuli that could harm the body
• Anger: the activity of the expectancy system is slowed down or irritation occurs a
• Panic: ensuring survival by very rapid reaction

Of 1998, Panksepp four secondary needs before: desire, care, play and social dominance.

Writings (selection )

• 2012: The Archaeology of Mind: Neuroevolutionary Origins of Human Emotion. WW Norton & Company, New York, ISBN 978-0-393-70531-7.
• 2004: A Textbook of Biological Psychiatry. Wiley, New York, ISBN 978-0-471-43478-8.
• 1998: Affective neuroscience: the foundations of human and animal emotions. Oxford University Press, Oxford, ISBN 978-0-19-509673-6.
• 1996: Advances in biological psychiatry. Volume II JAI Press, Greenwich (Conn. ), ISBN 978-0-7623-0170-6.
• 1995: Advances in biological psychiatry. JAI Press, Greenwich (Conn. ), ISBN 978-0-7623-0026-6.