Archeologia della mente. Origini neuroevolutive delle emozioni umane

Finally, here's a book that solidly connects neuroscience to affectivity. The authors even call this field, "affective neuroscience." Most of neuroscience, they write, doesn't touch the role of emotions or, if it does, emotion is put under cognition where it is created by or subject to consciousness Leggi tutto

I love Jaak Panksepp. He's like the Princess Diana of neuroscience. This book reads a bit like a textbook, but isn't dry. It also doubles as a manifesto for the inner lives of animals. Panksepp first asserts that our core affect (or in other words, our rawest emotion) is created by ancient subcortic Leggi tutto

Panksepp and Biven have delivered a remarkable and detailed record of the neural architecture of human emotions. There is quite a lot to take from this book. In my opinion, Panksepp was way ahead of his time and I can't find a better description than one made by another Goodreads user (Morgan Blackl Leggi tutto

Regrettably I couldn’t finish it within the last year, but this was a really big book to digest, despite being written for the general reader (at least hypothetically). That being said, it is a tremendous achievement. It really unfortunate that the author passed away so soon after it was published, Leggi tutto

I was introduced to this book first by Albert and Beatriz Sheldon’s Complex Integration of Multiple Brain Systems in Therapy (an explosive must-read for psychotherapists interested in theoretical integration) and later through authors in the IPNB series. While much of Panksepp/Biven’s research/writin Leggi tutto

Jaak Panskepp, who is an affective neuroscientist teamed up with Lucy Biven, a clinician, to compile this book as a discussion of the foundational systems that our emotions are built upon. His view, based mainly on animal research, is that there exist core systems in the brain that structure our fee Leggi tutto

One of the best books I’ve read on the inner workings of the mind of humans and other animals. It is also one of the most important books I have ever read.

Panksepp adds a foundational body of work to our understanding of human nature in this analysis of the neuroscience of emotion. Basing his work on an analysis on animal studies, human neuroimaging and psychology Panksepp gets to work overturning a centuries worth of the behavioral paradigm with its

Don’t let the weighty title of this book scare you away from reading this fascinating, detailed and illuminating discussion of the roots of human emotions. Not only will you be amazed at the insightful writing, but also the compassionate advocacy Dr. Panksepp shares for non-human animals as well. If Leggi tutto