Jaak Panksepp

Emotional endophenotypes in evolutionary psychiatry.

Neuroevolutionary sources of laughter and social joy: modeling primal human laughter in laboratory rats.

Social defeat, a paradigm of depression in rats that elicits 22-kHz vocalizations, preferentially activates the cholinergic signaling pathway in the periaqueductal gray.

Behavioral functions of the mesolimbic dopaminergic system: an affective neuroethological perspective.

Neuro-psychoanalysis may enliven the mindbrain sciences.

Brain regional neuropeptide changes resulting from social defeat.

Reconciling cognitive and affective neuroscience perspectives on the brain basis of emotional experience.

Does any aspect of mind survive brain damage that typically leads to a persistent vegetative state? Ethical considerations.

The power of the word may reside in the power of affect.

Can PLAY diminish ADHD and facilitate the construction of the social brain?

The trans-species core SELF: the emergence of active cultural and neuro-ecological agents through self-related processing within subcortical-cortical midline networks.

Sleep as a fundamental property of neuronal assemblies.

A proposal for a coordinated effort for the determination of brainwide neuroanatomical connectivity in model organisms at a mesoscopic scale.

Stress-induced, glucocorticoid-dependent strengthening of glutamatergic synaptic transmission in midbrain dopamine neurons.

Primary process affects and brain oxytocin.

Repeated cocaine exposure induces sensitization of ultrasonic vocalization in rats.

Exposure to cocaine dynamically regulates the intrinsic membrane excitability of nucleus accumbens neurons.

Affective consciousness in animals: perspectives on dimensional and primary process emotion approaches.

Tractographic analysis of historical lesion surgery for depression.

Exposure to cocaine alters dynorphin-mediated regulation of excitatory synaptic transmission in nucleus accumbens neurons.

Toward a cross-species neuroscientific understanding of the affective mind: do animals have emotional feelings?

Affective neuroscience of the emotional BrainMind: evolutionary perspectives and implications for understanding depression.

Analysis of the disruption of maternal social bonds in Octodon degus: separation distress in restricted reunion tests.

Brief periods of positive peer interactions mitigate the effects of total social isolation in young Octodon degus.

Why does depression hurt? Ancestral primary-process separation-distress (PANIC/GRIEF) and diminished brain reward (SEEKING) processes in the genesis of depressive affect.

Octodon degus. A useful animal model for social-affective neuroscience research: basic description of separation distress, social attachments and play.

D-amphetamine stimulates unconditioned exploration/approach behaviors in crayfish: Towards a conserved evolutionary function of ancestral drug reward.

Positive affective vocalizations during cocaine and sucrose self-administration: a model for spontaneous drug desire in rats.

Positive emotional learning is regulated in the medial prefrontal cortex by GluN2B-containing NMDA receptors.

Toward affective circuit-based preclinical models of depression: sensitizing dorsal PAG arousal leads to sustained suppression of positive affect in rats.

The basic emotional circuits of mammalian brains: do animals have affective lives?

Cross-species affective neuroscience decoding of the primal affective experiences of humans and related animals.

What is neuropsychoanalysis? Clinically relevant studies of the minded brain.

Behavior. Empathy and the laws of affect.

Rats selectively bred for low levels of play-induced 50 kHz vocalizations as a model for autism spectrum disorders: a role for NMDA receptors.

Toward a cross-species understanding of empathy.

The emergence of primary anoetic consciousness in episodic memory.

Will better psychiatric treatments emerge from top-down or bottom-up neuroscientific studies of affect?

Integrating bottom-up internalist views of emotional feelings with top-down externalist views: might brain affective changes constitute reward and punishment effects within animal brains?

Subliminal affect valence words change conscious mood potency but not valence: is this evidence for unconscious valence affect?

The "id" knows more than the "ego" admits: neuropsychoanalytic and primal consciousness perspectives on the interface between affective and cognitive neuroscience.

Differential ultrasonic indices of separation distress in the presence and absence of maternal cues in infant rats bred for high and low positive social affect.

Preclinical modeling of primal emotional affects (Seeking, Panic and Play): gateways to the development of new treatments for depression.

The emotional fundamentals of personality and the higher affective polarities of mind: comment on "personality from a cognitive-biological perspective" by Y. Neuman.

Improved memory for reward cues following acute buprenorphine administration in humans.

Resting-state functional connectivity of antero-medial prefrontal cortex sub-regions in major depression and relationship to emotional intelligence.

Evolutionary aspects of self- and world consciousness in vertebrates.

Brain Emotion Systems, Personality, Hopelessness, Self/Other Perception, and Gambling Cognition: A Structural Equation Model.

Intranasal adminsitration of oxytocin in postnatal depression: implications for psychodynamic psychotherapy from a randomized double-blind pilot study.

Top-down versus bottom-up perspectives on clinically significant memory reconsolidation.

Neurologizing the Psychology of Affects: How Appraisal-Based Constructivism and Basic Emotion Theory Can Coexist.

Cognitive Conceptualism-Where Have All the Affects Gone? Additional Corrections for Barrett et al. (2007).

Origins of Effortful Control: Infant and Parent Contributions.

Ultra-Low-Dose Buprenorphine as a Time-Limited Treatment for Severe Suicidal Ideation: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

Affective preclinical modeling of psychiatric disorders: taking imbalanced primal emotional feelings of animals seriously in our search for novel antidepressants.

The cross-mammalian neurophenomenology of primal emotional affects: From animal feelings to human therapeutics.

The Role of Nature and Nurture for Individual Differences in Primary Emotional Systems: Evidence from a Twin Study.

Positive Emotional Learning Induces Resilience to Depression: A Role for NMDA Receptor-mediated Synaptic Plasticity.

Primary emotional traits in patients with personality disorders.

Music chills: The eye pupil as a mirror to music's soul.

The Psycho-Neurology of Cross-Species Affective/Social Neuroscience: Understanding Animal Affective States as a Guide to Development of Novel Psychiatric Treatments.

Individual differences in Affective Neuroscience Personality Scale (ANPS) primary emotional traits and depressive tendencies.

An Affective Neuroscience Framework for the Molecular Study of Internet Addiction.

Primary Emotional Systems and Personality: An Evolutionary Perspective.

Use of tramadol in psychiatric care: A comprehensive review and report of two cases.

The Affective Core of the Self: A Neuro-Archetypical Perspective on the Foundations of Human (and Animal) Subjectivity.