Category Archives: Affective Neuroscience

Emotional Brain Reigns

Emotional Brain Understanding past trauma does little to help in dealing with PTSD. No matter how much insight and planning, the emotional brain has a reality of its own and it is the emotional brain that reigns.

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Primary Emotional Processes

Primary Emotional Processes Jaak Panksepp researched primary emotional processes and their neural components.  He mapped the brains of rats by connecting electrodes to parts of their brain to see if stimulating an area caused the rats to seek or avoid … Continue reading

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