I fondamenti emotivi della personalità. Un approccio neurobiologico ed evoluzionistico

The main ideas of this book were first formulated by Jaak Panksepp, the psychobiologist and neuroscientist who became a wee bit famous outside the field for his research about laughter in non-human animals, especially laughing rats. He died before it was finished, and this volume could be considered Leggi tutto

This is a book met for the academic and not the casual reader. I still wanted to give it a try as I had previously read and deeply appreciated Jack Panksepp’s astonishing work, ‘The Archeology of Mind.’ This is a more technical version of that seminal volume that expands on his hypothesis that seven Leggi tutto

I've always been interested in what drives human behaviour, and it becomes increasingly evident that personality is a big contributor to how human beings and animals perceive and act in the world. This is in large part what got me interested in psychology. It's clear that personality has an evolutio Leggi tutto

Remarkable book with a remarkably plausible understanding of how the brain-mind is driven to self-organize from the 'bottom-up'. The authors, and in particular, the work of Jaak Panksepp, has taken the behavioral 'circle' of ethology and translated its presence into the anatomy of the brainstem, whe Leggi tutto

This is very important scientific work. At once immediately obvious & a profound epiphany that animals have personalities. Yes! So obvious in hindsight that the biochemical mechanics of emotions are shared with most creatures, especially mammals because we've evolved along a mammalian continuum. The Leggi tutto