Tag Archives: Affective Neuroscience

Awakening Unto Awareness 8 PLAYrooms

Posted on August 15, 2020 by Joel

Healing Power of Reading Though none of my therapists tapped into the therapeutic power of bibliotherapy, the right book at the right time is transformative.

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Awakening Unto Awareness 7 PLAY

Posted on August 8, 2020 by Joel

PLAY You might not think of PLAY in terms of affective neuroscience, but according to Jaak Panksepp’s years of lab research, it is. Playfulness is the source of one of the most positive social-affective feelings our brains can generate.

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Awakening Unto Awareness 6 GRIEF

Posted on August 1, 2020 by Joel

PANIC/GRIEF Jaak Panksepp initially called the sixth primary affect system the PANIC /GRIEF system to reflect what goes on deep in the subcortical brain. Like the other primary emotions, the GRIEF system consists of a widespread emotional network concentrated largely … Continue reading →

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Awakening into Awareness 5 CARE

Posted on July 26, 2020 by Joel

Seeking CARE Most neuroscientists accept the LUST and RAGE brain systems, because both emotions are manifested in animal behavior and because these emotions are patently essential for survival.

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Awakening Into Awareness 3 FEAR

Posted on July 12, 2020 by Joel

3 FEAR The FEAR system, like the other primal emotional systems, behaves like the sinews and muscles of our bodies. The more they are used, the stronger they become. And you don’t have to get up and exercise to work … Continue reading →

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Maternal Care: Love & Grief

Posted on September 14, 2019 by Joel

Maternal Care: Love &Grief (go together like a horse and carriage) Care: When an infant is separated from the mother, it cries in grief or distress. But the feeling of grief, as painful as it is, is essential for its … Continue reading →

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CARE in Short Supply

Posted on August 8, 2019 by Joel

CARE is one of the seven primary emotions neurologically pinpointed in the subcortical brain. These seven primary emotions are raw affects that arise from the dynamics of large-scale neural networks that generate instinctual emotional behaviors.

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Anti-Bullying

Posted on July 28, 2019 by Joel

Anti-bullying Play Anti-bullying is a lesson that can be learned from play. Jaak Panksepp found play dominance emerges when two rats are allowed to play together repeatedly. One rat tends to become “the winner,” meaning it ends up on top … Continue reading →

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Functions of Play

Posted on July 14, 2019 by Joel

You might not think of Play in terms of affective neuroscience, but according to Jaak Panksepp’s years of lab research, playfulness is the source of one of the most positive social-affective feelings our brains can generate.

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Comorbidity R Us

Posted on July 10, 2019 by Joel

Comorbidity Comorbidity invokes scary images for me. Maybe it is because I taught high school English and broke complex words by their root, prefix, and suffix. Morbid (Oxford English Dictionary)  is from classical Latin morbidus; diseased, sick, causing disease, unhealthy < morbus … Continue reading →

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