Tag Archives: Affect

CARING with Oxytocin

Posted on February 27, 2019 by Joel

Jaak Panksepp coined the term affective neuroscience or the neuroscience of emotions. Culminating a lifetime of animal lab research, he identified seven primary-process emotions built into the brain by evolution, hardwired into the subcortical networks of all mammalian brains:

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FEAR Factor

Posted on February 24, 2019 by Joel

Primal-Affect Systems SEEKING or expectancy RAGE FEAR LUST CARING PANIC/GRIEF PLAY

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LUST

Posted on February 21, 2019 by Joel

LUST LUST is fourth on the list of Jaak Panksepp’s seven primary affect systems. These primary affects all originate in the subcortical brain.  They are like the prime numbers of the emotional system. They can’t be divided by any other … Continue reading →

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SEEKING

Posted on February 17, 2019 by Joel

Why can’t we realize if we don’t make immediate changes, climate change is on course to destroy our planet? The answer is straight forward. We are mammals. Our higher executive cortex is slave to our lower subcortical emotional systems, just … Continue reading →

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Mood Brain-zapping

Posted on February 13, 2019 by Joel

Deluge of Brain-Zapping Mood Research Direct electrical stimulation of lateral orbitofrontal cortex acutely improves mood in individuals with symptoms of depression. Current Biology Mood variations decoded from multi-site intracranial human brain activity. Nature Biotechnology An amygdala-hippocampus subnetwork that encodes variation in … Continue reading →

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Laughter – Communing

Posted on January 26, 2019 by Joel

Though you might think of laughter as a human phenomenon always associated with humor, such as the punchline of a joke, laughter does not require much in the way of cognitive complexity. Human laughter is rooted in the ancient PLAY … Continue reading →

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Drowning in Feelings & Emotions

Posted on December 19, 2018 by Joel

Jaak Panksepp’s research goes deep into the wordless territory of affect or feelings and emotions where few psychologists, psychiatrists, or other researchers have gone. After years of work with lab animals he came up with seven primary affect systems:

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PLAY for Mental Health

Posted on December 16, 2018 by Joel

Jaak Panksepp called the seventh affect system the Play System. Seven Primary Affect Systems SEEKING or expectancy RAGE FEAR LUST CARING PANIC/GRIEF PLAY You might not think of PLAY in terms of emotional or affective systems, but according to Jaak … Continue reading →

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PANIC/GRIEF

Posted on December 12, 2018 by Joel

Jaak Panksepp initially called the sixth affect system the PANIC SYSTEM to reflect what goes on deep in the subcortical brain.

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CARING

Posted on December 9, 2018 by Joel

Of the seven primary-affect systems, perhaps CARING is the least studied. Or maybe better put, the CARE system has been mainly studied in terms of pregnancy and motherhood.

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