Tag Archives: Affects

Emotional Brain Reigns

Posted on February 10, 2019 by Joel

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

Posted on February 7, 2019 by Joel

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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Gender Bender

Posted on December 5, 2018 by Joel

LUST LUST may be the most complicated of Jaak Panksepp’s seven primal affects.  It begins in the womb with the XX chromosome endowment for females and XY for males. Were gender that simple. But it is not. What makes it … Continue reading →

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Seeking Paradox

Posted on November 25, 2018 by Joel

Jaak Panksepp in his encyclopedic “The Archeology of Mind: Neuroevolutionary Origins” discusses Seven Primary Affective (intense emotional) Systems: 1. SEEKING or expectancy 2. RAGE 3. FEAR

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