Jaak Panksepp

List of John Benjamins publications for which Jaak Panksepp plays a role.

Articles

The bipolar affective structures of brain emotional processes – namely negative and positive affects – provide ideal ways to make scientific progress on the “hard problem” of primal consciousness: wherever in subcortical brain regions one applies highly localized electrical deep brain stimulation,… read more
Biological evidence for evolved-adaptive (genetically-selected) modularity for human brain language processing is almost nonexistent. The historical emergence of human brain language capacity may wholly reflect socio-cultural learning, permitted by evolved cortical expansions and motivated by… read more
Panksepp, Jaak 2012 2. In defense of multiple Core AffectsCategorical versus Dimensional Models of Affect: A seminar on the theories of Panksepp and Russell, Zachar, Peter and Ralph D. Ellis (eds.), pp. 31–78 | Article
Solms, Mark and Jaak Panksepp 2010 Why depression feels badNew Horizons in the Neuroscience of Consciousness, Perry, Elaine K., Daniel Collerton, Fiona E.N. LeBeau and Heather Ashton (eds.), pp. 169–178 | Article
We believe that conscious mental phenomena (such as feelings) are not epiphenomenal to the workings of the brain. Feelings evolved for good biological reasons; they make specific, concrete contributions to brain functioning. Notwithstanding all the philosophical complexities, therefore, the… read more
Aims. Currently, methylphenidate (MPH, trade name Ritalin) is the most widely prescribed medication for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). We examined the ability of repeated MPH administration to produce a sensitized appetitive eagerness type response in laboratory rats, as indexed… read more
Panksepp, Jaak 2001 Järvilehto’s seductive ideas: Provocative concepts without data?Affective Qualia and The Subjective Dimension, Ellis, Ralph D. and Natika Newton (eds.), pp. 157–171 | Discussion
Introductory Note: This commentary developed out of an informal discussion of Part I (2000) of Jarvilehto’s two-part Consciousness & Emotion series with Ralph Ellis at the recent Amsterdam Symposium on Feelings and Emotions (June 13–16, 2001). Part II of Jarvilehto’s series appears in the present… read more
The neurobiological systems that mediate the basic emotions are beginning to be understood. They appear to be constituted of genetically coded, but experientially refined executive circuits situated in subcortical areas of the brain which can coordinate the behavioral, physiological and… read more