Tag Archives: Affective Neuroscience

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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Affects R Us

Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) proves effective if what has gone wrong is within recent and specific sets of life problems with clear cognitive underpinnings. In other words, CBT works well for everyday life problems, ie marital … Continue reading

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Laughter – Communing

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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Self-CARE In An Irrational World

Care and Grief The bond is formed from the start, when infants are totally helpless, dependent for their life on their mothers and fathers, mostly their mothers, completely alone with no one to turn to. They cry to arouse the … Continue reading

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Drowning in Feelings & Emotions

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

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

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

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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