Affective Neuroscience: The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions (Series in Affective Science) 1st Edition

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Some investigators have argued that emotions, especially animal emotions, are illusory concepts outside the realm of scientific inquiry. However, with advances in neurobiology and neuroscience, researchers are demonstrating that this position is wrong as they move closer to a lasting
understanding of the biology and psychology of emotion. In Affective Neuroscience, Jaak Panksepp provides the most up-to-date information about the brain-operating systems that organize the fundamental emotional tendencies of all mammals. Presenting complex material in a readable manner, the book
offers a comprehensive summary of the fundamental neural sources of human and animal feelings, as well as a conceptual framework for studying emotional systems of the brain. Panksepp approaches emotions from the perspective of basic emotion theory but does not fail to address the complex issues
raised by constructionist approaches. These issues include relations to human consciousness and the psychiatric implications of this knowledge. The book includes chapters on sleep and arousal, pleasure and fear systems, the sources of rage and anger, and the neural control of sexuality, as well as
the more subtle emotions related to maternal care, social loss, and playfulness. Representing a synthetic integration of vast amounts of neurobehavioral knowledge, including relevant neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, and neurochemistry, this book will be one of the most important contributions to
understanding the biology of emotions since Darwins The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals

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"It is an invaluable reference for any neuroscientist interested in understanding the neurobiological basis of drives and emotions where the best information is contained in the animal literature. This is the strength of Panksepp's book which summarizes and references these data around clinically recognizable concepts making the information highly relevant to practicing clinicians." ―Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences

"Jaak Panksepp presents a synopsis of animal research on emotion together with stimulating new ideas on the role and representation of emotion in humans and other mammals. It seemed clear to me that Panksepp's affective neuroscience can provide a valuable foundation to emotion research. These are not entirely new ideas, but by presenting them in a comprehensive text on the neuroscience of emotion, Panksepp constructs a strong defense against the not uncommon view that emotions are 'illusionary concepts outside the realm of scientific enquiry.' For this reason alone, Panksepp is to be congratulated. This is a powerful text that will make a lasting impression on emotion research in general. Panksepp has provided a much-needed review of the animal literature, together with fascinating new ideas on the nature of affective consciousness." ― Andy Calder, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK

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Jaak Panksepp is at Medical College of Ohio at Toledo.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Oxford University Press; 1st edition (September 30, 2004)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 480 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 019517805X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0195178050
Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 1620L
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.02 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 10 x 0.9 x 7.04 inches

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2oam

Deep and thick book

Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2020

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Recommended by JP. It’s thick. So be prepared

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Comodified

Worth of the Nobel Prize

Reviewed in the United States on October 12, 2020

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Fundamental textbook. Jaak Penksapp should have received Nobel Prize in Science. This textbook was instrumental for Richard Thaller's Behavioral economics (2017 Nobel Prize in Economics) is based on Jaak's fundamental work.

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Nathanial Davis

Knowledge is power.

Reviewed in the United States on July 16, 2020

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Neuroscience that's useful. This information is in depth. Understanding the science as explained in this book helps to know more about the chemical/physical aspects of emotions. It's more than just a feeling. This needs to be known.
Thank you for sharing this information with the world. This book costs but it's worth it.

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viv

Great book with lots of knowledge

Reviewed in the United States on June 25, 2020

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Textbook style book but has great knowledge. Worth it if you’re a science person or someone looking to be a science intellectual.

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An Excellent Foundation, Despite Its Age

Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2006

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It often astonishes me how many of my colleagues continue to argue that emotions are no more than simple reflexes that probably do not even exist in animals. Yet anyone who spends much time with animals constantly observes sophisticated reasoning and highly developed emotions. And it is difficult to try and reduce the sometimes devastating consequences of emotional disturbances in people with mood disorders to a series of reflexes.

Fortunately the understanding of the neurobiology of emotion has taken enormous strides in recent years. Jaak Panksepp, long regarded as one of the leaders in the field, gives us a wonderfully readable account of some of the neurological machinery that helps organize emotion in ALL mammals. For it is becoming clear that emotion is present in every mammal so far studied: even mice show evidence of emotion.

Panksepp includes discussion of arousal and of sleep: this one is of particular importance in the light of the increasing body of clinical work indicating that many mood disorders are secondary to disturbances of sleep, rather than sleep disorders being a consequence of mood disorders. He goes on to discuss systems involved in pleasure and fear, the sources of some forms of anger and rage. He is very good on the neural control of sexuality in animals, as well as the subtle emotions involved maternal care, social loss, and playfulness. The importance of these neurological systems in human beings remains an open question: humans are so astonishingly complex and have so many "extra" dimensions on their behavioral actions, that it is probably unwise to try and reduce these complex behaviors to the firing of groups of neurons.

This focus on the neurobiology of affect is welcome, though it is valuable to remember that emotion can also be conceptualized as irreducible psychological and social functions.

Although this book is eight years old, it remains an excellent foundation and context in which to place more recent books and papers.

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Stanley Lippman

revelatory text

Reviewed in the United States on April 15, 2007

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i came across the author through a news article in the new york times about laughing rats. they had a link to his paper, which i found fascinating, so i ordered his book. i have no education in science, so i'm interested in the material but i haven't anything more than a high school science education from the mid-1960s, so all this molecular stuff is frightfully difficult for me to internalize. Some of this text is totally gobbledygook for me. There are so many italicized words and those bizarre brain locations i would have needed a pen and pad to actually locate the semantics of those sentences. but when i can get through all that, i find his hypothesis and evidence quite compelling. i've read le doux because he's very simple in his explanations, and in this text he is critized for his dismissal of the limbic system. this book's central thesis is that the "triune" brain represents an evolutionary progression, with primal emotions [anger, fear, "seeking"] an early aspect of nervous systems that conserves across all vertebrates. then he discusses the mroe social behaviors located within the old mammalian brain which we share with other mammals, etc. he provides a molecular description of neurochemical circuits. i am learning a lot, and there is much food for thought. i have no idea, i am not capable of judging whether or not his work and conclusions are valid. I can't tell you whether this book is good science or not. but to me this stuff is important to try to understand, and i think this book brings an important viewpoint to the table that i personally sympathize with and so i choose to accept it -- it fits my biases. i don't know what's true, but at this by reading this, at least i feel like i am beginning to understand the nature of what it really means to be human. so this book is central to my attemp to understand what it means to be alive.

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Cee Jay

Heavy on the Science

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 14, 2020

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This is a course textbook for me, and boy I struggled with it at first. Just incomprehensible.

I listened to Panksepp on the Brain Science podcast, and YouTube lectures, which enabled me to get the gist.

I now get it, and it's a book that I'll be dipping into forever I think, it's fascinating.

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UWE H.

Challenging views-no easy read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 22, 2015

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Panksepp makes major strides along the road suggested by o.e.wilson in consilience: unify the human science and "science" views of human nature. There is a lot of basic science, necessary and demanding. And there is a thorough exploration of the mutual blindness between psychologists, behaviourists and neuroscientists - which Panksepp tries to get to sit around a table and agree that only when all facets of the picture are looked at will we have a complete picture of how our mind and our emotions work together. And, while he takes great care not to appear deterministic of overly biological, he emphasises the need for the more nurture-oriented sciences to accept that they operate on a basis that we share with all mammals. Which does in no way lead to rubbishy "nature red in tooth and claw" views but rather elucidates how "human and humane" animal emotions are. Challenging and worthwhile!

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Mariusz Kulesza

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 24, 2017

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fantastic

Marcelo Henrique

Magnífico!

Reviewed in Brazil on June 10, 2018

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Livro magnífico! Muito bem escrito. As explicações sobre evolução e sua relação com os afetos é impressionante. Seriam as emoções uma fase extremamente importante para nossa evolução filogenética e ontogenética?

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Jacqueline G.

Excellent

Reviewed in Canada on June 16, 2021

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Book is brand new (like I ordered it) BUT it has a sticker remnant on the back cover. It's a small detail but for the price of this book new ($78) I would have wanted one that didnt have this darned sticker on it for me to pick off.

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