Jaak Panksepp

Jaak Panksepp (June 5, 1943 – April 18, 2017) was an Estonian neuroscientist and psychobiologist who coined the term "affective neuroscience", the name for the field that studies the neural mechanisms of emotion.[1][2][3] He was the Baily Endowed Chair of Animal Well-Being Science for the Department of Veterinary and Comparative Anatomy, Pharmacology, and Physiology at Washington State University's College of Veterinary Medicine, and Emeritus Professor of the Department of Psychology at Bowling Green State University. He was known in the popular press for his research on laughter in non-human animals.[4][5]

Jaak Panksepp
Jaak Panksepp (on the right) at the promotion of honorary doctors at the University of Tartu (December 2004).
BornJune 5, 1943
Tartu, Estonia
DiedApril 18, 2017(2017-04-18) (aged 73)
Bowling Green, Ohio, U.S.
NationalityEstonian
Alma materUniversity of Pittsburgh (BS, 1965)
University of Massachusetts, Amherst (MS, 1967) (PhD, 1969)
Known forPioneer in affective neuroscience
AwardsOrder of the White Star
Scientific career
FieldsPsychology, Neuropsychopharmacology, Affective neuroscience, Behavioral neuroscience
Institutions

Early life and education

Panksepp was born in Estonia on June 5, 1943. His family escaped the ravages of post-WWII Russian occupation by moving to the United States when he was very young.[6] He studied initially at University of Pittsburgh in 1964, and then did a Ph.D. at the University of Massachusetts.[7]

Research

Panksepp conducted many experiments; in one with rats, he found that the rats showed signs of fear when cat hair was placed close to them, even though they had never been anywhere near a cat.[8] Panksepp theorized from this experiment that it is possible laboratory research could routinely be skewed due to researchers with pet cats.[8] He attempted to replicate the experiment using dog hair, but the rats displayed no signs of fear.[8]

In the 1999 documentary Why Dogs Smile and Chimpanzees Cry, he is shown to comment on the research of joy in rats: the tickling of domesticated rats made them produce a high-pitch sound which was hypothetically identified as laughter.

Panksepp is also well known for publishing a paper in 1979 suggesting that opioid peptides could play a role in the etiology of autism, which proposed that autism may be "an emotional disturbance arising from an upset in the opiate systems in the brain".[9]

In his book Affective Neuroscience, Panksepp described how efficient learning may be conceptually achieved through the generation of subjectively experienced neuroemotional states that provide simple internalized codes of biological value that correspond to major life priorities .[10][11]

Temple Grandin draws extensively on Panksepp's work in describing how an appreciation of the primal emotions of 'PLAY', 'PANIC/GRIEF', 'FEAR', 'RAGE', 'SEEKING', 'LUST' and 'CARE' and what triggers them can improve human care of stock animals and the welfare of companion animals.[12]

Death

Panksepp died on April 18, 2017 from cancer at his home in Bowling Green, Ohio at the age of 73.[13]

Books
  • Panksepp, J., and Davis, K. (2018). The Emotional Foundations of Personality: A Neurobiological and Evolutionary Approach. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. W W Norton page
  • Panksepp, J., and Biven, L. (2012). The Archaeology of Mind: Neuroevolutionary Origins of Human Emotion. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. W W Norton page
  • Panksepp J (Ed.) (2004) A Textbook of Biological Psychiatry, New York, Wiley
  • Panksepp, J. (1998). Affective Neuroscience: The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Panksepp, J (Ed.) (1996). Advances in Biological Psychiatry, Vol. 2, Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.
  • Panksepp, J (Ed.) (1995). Advances in Biological Psychiatry, Vol. 1, Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.
  • Clynes, M. and Panksepp, J. (Eds.) (1988). Emotions and Psychopathology, New York, Plenum Press.
  • Morgane, J. P., and Panksepp, J. (Eds.). (1981). Handbook of the Hypothalamus: Vol. 4 : Part B. Behavioral Studies of the Hypothalamus. New York: Marcel Dekker, Inc.
  • Morgane, J. P., and Panksepp, J. (Eds.). (1980). Handbook of the Hypothalamus: Vol. 3 : Part A. Behavioral Studies of the Hypothalamus. New York: Marcel Dekker, Inc.
  • Morgane, J. P., and Panksepp, J. (Eds.). (1980). Handbook of the Hypothalamus: Vol. 2 : Physiology of the Hypothalamus. New York: Marcel Dekker, Inc.
  • Morgane, J. P., and Panksepp, J. (Eds.). (1979). Handbook of the Hypothalamus: Vol. 1 : Anatomy of the Hypothalamus. New York: Marcel Dekker, Inc.

See also

References
  1. Panksepp, J (1992). "A critical role for "affective neuroscience" in resolving what is basic about basic emotions". Psychological Review. 99 (3): 554–60. doi:10.1037/0033-295X.99.3.554. PMID 1502276.
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-06-29. Retrieved 2008-07-23.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. Walker, Brendan M (2017-10-13). "Jaak Panksepp: Pioneer of Affective Neuroscience". Neuropsychopharmacology. 42 (12): 2470. doi:10.1038/npp.2017.168. ISSN 0893-133X. PMC 5645743. PMID 29026256.
  4. It’s no joke: Even animals ‘laugh’ - LiveScience - nbcnews.com
  5. Panksepp, J; Burgdorf, J. (October 2000). "50k-Hz chirping (laughter?) in response to conditioned and unconditioned tickle-induced reward in rats: effects of social housing and genetic variables". Behavioural Brain Research. 115 (1): 25–38. doi:10.1016/s0166-4328(00)00238-2. PMID 10996405.
  6. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/personality-neuroscience/article/tribute-to-jaak-panksepp-19432017/70DD188254356D1219051A7A1FCEB58C
  7. https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/discover-interview-jaak-panksepp-pinned-down-humanitys-7-primal-emotions
  8. Grandin, Temple; Johnson, Catherine (2005). Animals in Translation. New York, New York: Scribner. p. 207. ISBN 978-0-7432-4769-6.
  9. Panksepp, J. (1979). "A neurochemical theory of autism". Trends in Neurosciences. 2: 174–177. doi:10.1016/0166-2236(79)90071-7.
  10. Shackleton-Jones, Nick (2019-05-03). How people learn : designing effective training to improve employee performance. London, United Kingdom. ISBN 9780749484712. OCLC 1098213554.
  11. Panksepp, Jaak, 1943- (1998). Affective neuroscience : the foundations of human and animal emotions. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195096738. OCLC 38580282.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  12. Grandin, Temple; Johnson, Catherine (2009). Animals make us human. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
  13. "Jaak Panksepp, Rat Tickler Who Revealed Emotion Lives of Animals, Dies At 73". The Washington Post. April 22, 2017. Retrieved April 22, 2017.
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