Jaak Panksepp

Jaak Panksepp on the Right (2004)

Jaak Panksepp (born June 5, 1943 in Tartu , Estonian SSR ; † April 17, 2017 ) was an Estonian-American university professor and professor of psychology at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. Since the late 1970s he has been researching the connections between brain activity and social behavior.

Life

Panksepp was born in Estonia. In 1944, his family fled the Red Army across the Baltic Sea to Northern Germany . In 1950 they emigrated to the USA as displaced persons . He studied psychology at the University of Pittsburgh , where he received his bachelor's degree in 1965 . He received his master's degree from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1967 and received his doctorate there in 1969 with the dissertation The Neural Basis of Aggression . As a post-doctoral student , he then worked at the University of Sussex until 1971 and at the Worcester Foundation in Shrewsbury in Massachusetts until 1972 .

From 1972 to 1974 he was Assistant Professor and from 1974 to 1977 Associate Professor at Bowling Green State University. From 1977 to 1988 he taught as a full professor at the university and from 1988 to his retirement in 1998 as a Distinguished Research Professor of Psychobiology. He was also a visiting professor at the Department of Psychology at the University of Michigan from 1999 to 2000 .

Panksepp was married and had four children.

Emotion systems

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Jaak Panksepp started out from four emotion systems that have a neural basis. They are primarily associated with the activity of the hypothalamus. Panksepp postulated that they are genetic and influence behavior in terms of approach and inhibition. Furthermore, he assumed feedback loops that influence the sensitivity of sensory systems so that behavior can also be controlled. The four emotion systems show up in four basic emotions:

• Looking for: activating the body towards positive reinforcement
• Fear: response to stimuli that could harm the body
• Anger: the activity of the expectation system decreases or irritation occurs
• Panic: Ensure survival through very quick reactions

In 1998, Panksepp suggested four secondary needs: lust, care, play, and social dominance.

Fonts (selection)

• 2012: The Archeology of Mind: Neuroevolutionary Origins of Human Emotion . WW Norton & Company , New York, ISBN 978-0-393-70531-7 .
• 2004: A Textbook of Biological Psychiatry . Wiley , New York, ISBN 978-0-471-43478-8 .
• 1998: Affective neuroscience: the foundations of human and animal emotions . Oxford University Press , Oxford, ISBN 978-0-19-509673-6 .
• 1996: Advances in biological psychiatry . Volume II. JAI Press, Greenwich (Conn.), ISBN 978-0-7623-0170-6 .
• 1995: Advances in biological psychiatry . JAI Press , Greenwich (Conn.), ISBN 978-0-7623-0026-6 .

Web links

• Homepage at Washington State University (English)
• Homepage at Bowling Green State University (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Flavio Ponzio, Giovanni Maria Ruggiero: Addio a Jaak Panksepp, neuroscienziato di fama mondiale . State of Mind, April 19, 2017, accessed April 22, 2017 (Italian).
2. ↑ Jaak Panksepp, 'rat tickler' who revealed emotional lives of animals, dies at 73 . Washington Post, April 21, 2017, accessed March 3, 2018
3. ↑ Robin Stock: Jaak Panksepp . ( Memento of June 29, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Biographical information in the Psychology History Archive of Muskingum College , December 1999, accessed on April 22, 2017 (English).