Tag Archives: Affects

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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Affective Neuroscience Comorbidity

Posted on June 22, 2019 by Joel

Comorbidity of Affective Neuroscience Working in his lab with rats, Jaak Panksepp found seven primary-process emotional  systems built into the brain by evolution. We and all other mammals are born with these innate neural systems in our brains. We are … Continue reading →

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Seeking Control of Emotions

Posted on March 21, 2019 by Joel

Even if you came up with answers to someone’s deepest problems, it would likely be a long time before they might be able to  accept this help. In words attributed to Winston Churchill, “Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but … Continue reading →

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Play for Life

Posted on March 14, 2019 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 affective neuroscience, but according to Jaak Panksepp’s years of … Continue reading →

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Emotions

Posted on March 10, 2019 by Joel

Emotions Jaak Panksepp discovered that the lower brain seems to be organized in such a way that one primal affective state prevails at any one time. He calls this monomania and it causes the upper thinking neocortex to follow the … Continue reading →

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Primary Emotions

Posted on March 7, 2019 by Joel

Primary Emotions The brain is built from the bottom up. At the bottom is the reptilian brain and surrounding the top of the brain is the neocortex or as Jack Panksepp would put it, our “thinking cap.”  In between is … Continue reading →

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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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