Baily
Endowed Chair of Animal Well-Being Science
Professor
Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus of Psychology,
Bowling Green State University
Head, Affective Neuroscience Research, Falk Center for Molecular
Therapeutics, Northwestern University
Phone: (509) 335-5803
Email:
jpanksepp@vetmed.wsu.edu
Office: McCoy Hall
Research Interests
Our present research is devoted to the analysis of the
neuroanatomical and neurochemical mechanisms of emotional behaviors (in
the emerging fields of affective and social neurosciences), with a focus
on understanding how various affective processes are evolutionarily
organized in the brain, and look for linkages to psychiatric disorders
and drug addiction. We conduct research on the brain "instinctual"
mechanisms of fear, anger, separation distress (panic), investigatory
processes an anticipatory eagerness, as well as rough-and-tumble play.
We are especially interested in how various brain neuropeptide systems
regulate emotional feelings and social bonds. Prior to the ongoing work
on emotional systems, we studied hypothalamic mechanisms of energy
balance control and neural regulation of sleep-waking states. In
addition to 300+ scientific articles (see CV below), I have co-edited
the multivolume Handbook of the Hypothalamus and of Emotions and
Psychopathology, a series in Advances in Biological Psychiatry and most
recently a Textbook of Biological Psychiatry (Wiley, 2004), My other
textbook, Affective Neuroscience: The Foundations of Human and Animal
Emotions (Oxford, 1998), has helped inaugurate a new field of inquiry
which attempts to probe the affective infrastructure of the mammalian
brain. Our working assumption is that all of consciousness was built on
affective value systems during the long course of brain evolution.
Our research orientation is that a detailed understanding of basic
emotional systems at the neural level will highlight the basic sources
of human values and the nature and genesis of emotional disorders in
humans, as summarized in my bio-sketch. (see
http://mind.ulusofona.pt/cv%20Panksepp.pdf). In the 1980s we helped
developed the still controversial opioid-antagonist therapy for autistic
children based on pre-clinical investigations into brain circuits that
control social behaviors (http://www.autism.org/interview/panksepp.html)
as well as the use of melatonin in regulating common sleep-waking
problems in pervasive developmental disorder (http://www.autism.org/melatonin.html).
We are pursuing new therapies for the treatment of Attention
Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorders (ADHD), and depression. Many of the
findings from animal models are ready to be evaluated in human
psychological research. Accordingly, we are seeking to facilitate the
development of new depth-psychological perspectives to understanding the
human mind (http://www.etatsgeneraux-psychanalyse.net/archives/texte215.html).
Our Center for the Study of Animal Well Being (http://www.vetmed.wsu.edu/depts-CSAW/
) and People-Pet Partnership Program (http://www.vetmed.wsu.edu/depts-pppp/),
are devoted to the study and improvement of animal emotional well-being.
Please see related story in WSU Today for more biography of Dr. Panksepp
(http://www.wsutoday.wsu.edu/completestory.asp?StoryID=2979)
Complete Curriculum Vitae
The post-2000 references highlighted below summarize our
current thinking about such issues:
Theoretical Papers:
2000:
Panksepp, J. (2000). The neurodynamics of emotions: An evolutionary-neurodevelopmental
view, In eds. M.D. Lewis & I. Granic, Emotion, Self-Organization, and
Development, pp. 236-264, New York: Cambridge Univ. Press.
Panksepp J. (2000). The neuro-evolutionary cusp between emotions and
cognitions: Implications for understanding consciousness and the
emergence of a unified mind science. Consciousness & Emotions. 1: 27-56.
Panksepp J. (2000). Emotions as natural kinds within the mammalian
brain. In: Lewis M, Haviland J, eds. The Handbook of Emotions. 2nd ed.
pp. 137-156, New York: Guilford.
Panksepp J. (2000). Emotional circuits of the mammalian brain:
implications for biological psychiatry. In: Bittar, E.E., Bittar, N.,
eds. Biological Psychiatry. pp. 27-58, Stamford, CT: JAI Press Inc.
Panksepp J.(2000). Fear and anxiety mechanisms of the brain: clinical
implications. In: Bittar, E.E., Bittar, N, eds. Biological Psychiatry.
pp. 157-178, Stamford, CT: JAI Press Inc.
Panksepp, J. (2000). On preventing another century of misunderstanding:
Toward a psychoethology of human experience and a psychoneurology of
affect. Neuro-Psychoanalysis.2: 240-255.
Panksepp J. (2000). Affective consciousness and the instinctual motor
system: the neural sources of sadness and joy. In: Ellis R, Newton N,
eds. The Caldron of Consciousness: Motivation, Affect and
Self-organization, Advances in Consciousness Research. pp. 27-54,
Amsterdam: John Benjamins Pub. Co.
Panksepp J. (2000). The riddle of laughter: neural and
psychoevolutionary underpinnings of joy. Current Directions in
Psychological Sciences. 9: 183-186.
Panksepp, J. & Panksepp, J.B. (2000). The seven sins of evolutionary
psychology. Evolution & Cognition: 6: 108-131.
Panksepp, J. (2000). The cradle of consciousness: a periconscious
emotional homunclus? Neuro-Psychoanalysis. 2: 24-32.
2001:
Panksepp J. (2001). The long-term psychobiological consequences of
infant emotions: prescriptions for the 21st century. Infant Mental
Health Journal. 22: 132-173.
Panksepp J. (2001). Neuro-affective processes and the brain substrates
of emotion: emerging perspectives and dilemmas. In: Kazniak A, ed.
Emotion, Qualia, and Consciousness. Pp. 160-180, World Scientific Pub.
Co.: Singapore.
Panksepp, J. & Panksepp, J.B. (2001). A continuing critique of
evolutionary psychology: Seven sins for seven sinners, plus or minus
two. Evolution & Cognition. 7: 56-80.
Panksepp, J. (2001). On the subcortical sources of basic human emotions
and the primacy of emotional-affective (action-perception) processes in
human consciousness. Evolution & Cognition. 7: 134-140.
Panksepp, J. (2001). The neuro-evolutionary cusp between emotions and
cognitions: Implications for understanding consciousness and the
emergence of a unified mind science. Evolution & Cognition. 7: 141-163.
2002:
Panksepp, J., Knutson, B., & Burgdorf, J. (2002). The role of emotional
brain systems in addictions: A neuro-evolutionary perspective.
Addiction. 97: 459-469.
Knutson, B., Burgdorf, J. & Panksepp, J. (2002). Ultrasonic
vocalizations as indices of affective states in rat. Psychological
Bulletin, 128:961-977.
Panksepp, J. & Bernatzky, G. (2002). Emotional sounds and the brain: the
neuro-affective foundations of musical appreciation. Behavioural
Processes, 60: 133-155
Panksepp, J., Moskal, J., Panksepp, J.B., & Kroes, R. (2002).
Comparative approaches in evolutionary psychology: Molecular
neuroscience meets the mind. Neuroendocrinology Letters, 23 (Suppl. 4):
105-115.
Panksepp, J. (2002). On the animalian values of the human spirit: the
foundational role of affect in psychotherapy and the evolution of
consciousness. European Journal of Psychotherapy, Counseling and Health,
5: 1-22.
Panksepp, J. (2002). The MacLean legacy and some modern trends in
emotion research. In G.A. Cory, Jr. & R. Gardner, Jr. Eds. The
Evolutionary Neuroethology of Paul MacLean, Praeger, Westport, CT, pp.
ix-xxvii.
2003:
Panksepp, J. (2003). At the interface between the affective, behavioral
and cognitive neurosciences: Decoding the emotional feelings of the
brain. Brain and Cognition. 52: 4-14.
Panksepp, J. & Burgdorf, J. 2003. "Laughing" rats and the evolutionary
antecedents of human joy? Physiology & Behavior, 79, 533-547.
Panksepp, J. (2003). Can anthropomorphic analyses of "separation cries"
in other animals inform us about the emotional nature of social loss in
humans? Psychological Reviews, 110: 376-388.
Panksepp, J. (2003). The neural nature of the core SELF: implications
for understanding schizophrenia. Kircher & David, The Self in
Neuroscience and Psychiatry, pp. 197-213. Cambridge Univ Press,
Cambridge, UK.
Panksepp, J. & Watt, D. (2003). The ego is first and foremost a body
ego. Review of Antonio Damasio’s Looking for Spinoza. Neuro-Psychoanalysis,
5: 201-215.
Panksepp, J. (2003). Feeling the pain of social loss. Science, 302:
237-239.
Panksepp, J. (2003). An archeology of mind: The ancestral sources of
human feelings. Soundings, LXXXVI, 41-69.
Panksepp, J. (2003). Commentary on "Understanding addictive
vulnerability": Toward a comprehensive psychobiological theory of
addictions. Neuro-Psychoanalysis, 5: 21-29.
Panksepp, J. (2003). Trennungsschmerz als mogliche ursache fur
panikattacken— neuropsychologische Uberlegungen und Befunde.
Personlichkeitsstorungen: Theorie und therapie, 7: 245-251.
Panksepp, J. (2003). The peri-conscious substrates of affective
consciousness. PSYCHE, 9(15),
http://psyche.cs.monash.edu.au/symposia/mangan/panksepp.html
2004:
Schutter, D.J.L.G., Van Honk, J., & and Panksepp, J. (2004) Introducing
repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) and its property of
causal inference in investigating the brain-function relationship.
Synthese. 141, 155-173
Panksepp, J. (2004). Biological psychiatry sketched: past, present,
future. In Panksepp J (ed) Textbook of Biological Psychiatry, pp. 3-32.
Wiley, New York.
Liotti, M., & Panksepp, J. (2004). On the neural nature of human
emotions and implications for biological psychiatry. In Panksepp J (ed)
Textbook of Biological Psychiatry, pp. 33-74. Wiley, New York.
Deak, T., & Panksepp, J. (2004). Stress, sleep and sexuality in
psychiatric disorders. In Panksepp J (ed) Textbook of Biological
Psychiatry, pp. 111-144. Wiley, New York.
Peterson, B. & Panksepp, J. (2004). The biological psychiatry of
childhood disorders. In Panksepp J (ed) Textbook of Biological
Psychiatry, pp. 393-436. New York, Wiley.
Panksepp, J. (2004). The emerging neuroscience of fear and anxiety
disorders. In Panksepp J (ed) Textbook of Biological Psychiatry, pp.
489-520. New York, Wiley.
Panksepp, J., Harro, J. (2004). The future of neuropeptides in
biological psychiatry and emotional psychopharmacology: Goals and
strategies. In Panksepp J (ed) Textbook of Biological Psychiatry, pp.
627-660. New York, Wiley.
Panksepp, J. (2004). Basic affects and the instinctual emotional systems
of the brain: The primordial sources of sadness, joy, and seeking. In.
Feelings and Emotions: The Amsterdam Symposium, pp. 174-193, Edited by
A.S.R. Manstead, N. Frijda, & A. Fischer, New York: Cambridge University
Press.
Panksepp, J. (2004). Affective consciousness and the origins of human
mind: A critical role of brain research on animal emotions. Impuls, 57,
47-60.
Panksepp, J., Nocjar, C., Burgdorf, J., Panksepp, J.B. & Huber, R.
(2004), The role of emotional systems in addiction: A neuroethological
perspective. In. R.A. Bevins & M.T. Bardo (eds.) 50th Nebraska Symposium
on Motivation: Motivational Factors in the Etiology of Drug Abuse,
Lincoln: Nebraska. Pp. 85-126.
Panksepp, J. & Zellner, M. (2004). Towards a neurobiologically based
unified theory of aggression. Revue Internationale de Psychologie
Sociale/International Review of Social Psychology. 17, 37-61.
Panksepp, J. (1989/2004). Altruism and helping behaviors, neurobiology.
In G. Adelman & B.H. Smith (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, 3rd
edition. Elsevier, New York.
Ciompi, L. & Panksepp, J. (2004). Energetic effects of emotions on
cognitions— complementary psychobiological and psychosocial finding. In
R. Ellis & N. Newton (eds). Consciousness & Emotions, Vol. 1. pp. 23-55,
John Benjamins, Amsterdam.
Panksepp, J. (2004). Emotions and affective experience. In M. Bekoff
(ed.) Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior, Vol. 2, (pp. 548-554). Greenwood
Press. Westport, CT.
Panksepp, J. & Smith Pasqualini, M. (2004). Development of emotional
systems. In. J. Nadel & R. Muir (Eds.). Emotional Development, (pp.
5-30) Oxford University Press.
2005:
Panksepp, J. (2005). Affective consciousness: Core emotional feelings in
animals and humans. Consciousness & Cognition, 14, 19-69.
Panksepp, J. (2005). Toward a science of ultimate concern. Consciousness
& Cognition, 14, 70-77.
Panksepp, J. (2005). Feelings of social loss: The evolution of pain and
the ache of a broken heart. In R. Ellis & N. Newton (eds). Consciousness
& Emotions, Vol. 1. pp. 23-55, John Benjamins, Amsterdam.
Panksepp, J. (2005). Why Does Separation-distress Hurt?: A Comment on
MacDonald and Leary. Psychological Bulletin, 131: 224-230.
Panksepp, J. (2005). On the emotional dynamics of the whole organism and
its parts, (Commentary on Lewis target article) Behavioral and Brain
Sciences, in press.
Panksepp, J. & Moskal, J. (2005). Schizophrenia: The elusive disease.
(Commentary on Burns target article) Behavioral and Brain Sciences, in
press.
Panksepp, J. (2005). Free will and the varieties of affective and
conative selves (Commentary on Wegner target article) Behavioral and
Brain Sciences, in press.
Panksepp, J. (2005). Social support and pain: How does the brain feel
the ache of a broke heart. Journal of Cancer Pain & Symptom Palliation,
1, 59-65.
Panksepp, J. (2005). Affective and social neuroscience approaches to
understanding core emotional feelings. In Mental Health and Well-being
in Animals. F. McMillan, ed. In press, Iowa State University Press:
Ames, Iowa.
Panksepp, J. (2005). On the embodied neural nature of core emotional
affects. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 12, 161-187.
Panksepp, J. (2005). On the primal nature of affective consciousness:
What are the relations between emotional awareness and affective
experience? Neuro-Psychoanalysis, 7, 40-55.
Panksepp, J. (2005). On the neuro-evolutionary nature of social pain,
support, and empathy. In Pain: New Essays on Its Nature & the
Methodology of Its Study. M. Aydede (ed.) pp. 367-387. The MIT Press,
Cambridge, MA.
2006:
Burgdorf, J. & Panksepp, J (2006). The neurobiology of positive
emotions. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 30, 173-187.
Northoff, G., Henzel, A., de Greck, M., Bermpohl, F., Dobrowolny, H., &
Panksepp, J. (2006). Self-referential processing in our brain—A
meta-analysis of imaging studies of the self. Neuroimage, In press.
Panksepp, J. (2006). Emotional endophenotypes in evolutionary
psychiatry. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology & Biological
Psychiatry. In Press.
Panksepp, J. & Moskal, J. (2006). Dopamine, pleasure and appetitive
eagerness: An emotional systems overview of the trans-hypothalamic
‘reward’ system in the genesis of addictive urges. In The Cognitive,
Behavioral and Affective neurosciences in Psychiatric Disorders. Ed. D.
Barch, in press, Oxford University Press: New York.
Research papers:
2000:
Burgdorf, J. & Panksepp, J. (2000). Anticipation of rewarding electrical
brain stimulation evokes ultrasonic vocalizations in rats. Behavioral
Neuroscience, 114: 320-327.
Panksepp, J. & Burgdorf, J. (2000). 50k-Hz chirping (laughter?) in
response to conditioned and unconditioned tickle-induced reward in rats:
effects of social housing and genetic variables. Behavioral Brain
Research, 115, pp. 25-38.
2001:
Burgdorf, J. & Panksepp, J. (2001). Tickling induces reward in
adolescent rats. Physiology & Behavior, 72: 167-173.
Burgdorf, J., Knutson, B., Panksepp, J., & Shippenberg, T. (2001).
Evaluation of rat ultrasonic vocalizations as predictors of the
conditioned aversive effects of drugs. Psychopharmacology, 155, 35-42.
Panksepp, J., Burgdorf, J. & Gordon, N. (2001). Toward a genetics of
joy: Breeding rats for "laughter." In A. Kazniak (ed.) Emotion, Qualia,
and Consciousness. Pp. 124-136, World Scientific: Singapore.
Burgdorf, J., Knutson, B., Panksepp, J., & Ikemoto, S. (2001). Nucleus
accumbens amphetamine microinjections unconditionally elicit 50 kHz
ultrasonic vocalizations in rats. Behavioral Neuroscience, 115: 940-944.
2002:
Nocjar, C. & Panksepp, J. (2002). Chronic intermittent amphetamine
pretreatment enhances future appetitive behavior for drug-, food- and
sexual-reward: Interaction with environmental variables. Behavioural
Brain Research, 128, 189-203.
Gordon, N.S., Kollack-Walker, S., Akil, H. & Panksepp, J. (2002).
Expression of c-fos gene activation during rough and tumble play in
juvenile rats. Brain Research Bulletin. 57: 651-659.
Panksepp, J., Burgdorf, J., Gordon, N. & Turner, C. (2002). Treatment of
ADHD with methylphenidate may sensitize brain substrates of desire.
Consciousness & Emotion, 3: 7-19.
2003:
Scott, E. & Panksepp, J. (2003). Rough-and-tumble play in human
children. Aggressive Behaviour. 29: 539-551.
Panksepp, J., Burgdorf, J., Gordon, N. & Turner, C. (2003). Modeling
ADHD-type arousal with unilateral frontal cortex damage in rats and
beneficial effects of play therapy. Brain and Cognition. 52: 97-105.
Gordon, N.S., Burke, S., Akil, H., Watson, J., & Panksepp, J. (2003).
Socially induced brain fertilization: Play promotes brain derived
neurotrophic factor expression. Neuroscience Letters. 341, 17-20.
Schutter, D.J.L.G., Van Honk, J., D’Alfonso, A.A.L., Peper, J.S., and
Panksepp, J., (2003). High frequency rTMS over the medial cerebellum
induces a shift in the prefrontal EEG gamma spectrum: A pilot study,
Neuroscience Letters. 336: 73-76.
Panksepp, J., & Gordon, N. (2003). The instinctual basis of human
affect: Affective imaging of laughter and crying. Consciousness &
Emotion, 4: 197-206.
Davis, K.L., Panksepp, J. & Normansell, L. (2003). The affective
neuroscience personality scales: Normative data and implications. Neuro-Psychoanalysis,
5: 21-29.
2004:
Panksepp, J., Burgdorf, J., Beinfeld, M.C., Kroes, R.A. & Moskal, J.R.
(2004). Regional brain cholecystokinin changes as a function of friendly
and aggressive social interactions in rats. Brain Research, 1025, 75—84.
Reuter, M., Panksepp, J., Schnabel, N., Kellerhoff, N., Kempel, P.,
Hennig, J. (2004). Personality and biological markers of creativity.
European Journal of Personality, In Press.
Reuter, M., Hennig, J., and Panksepp, J., (2004). Initial evidence for
molecular genetic validations of the affective neuroscience personality
theory. Journal of Individual Differences, In Press.
2005:
Burgdorf, J., Panksepp, J., Brudzynski, S.M . & Moskal, J.R. (2005).
Breeding for 50-kHz positive affective vocalizations in rats. Behavior
Genetics, 35, 67-72.
Halberg, F., Cornelissen, G., Panksepp, J., Otsuka, K. & Johnson, D.
(2005). Chronomics of autism and suicide. Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy,
59, S100-S108.
Gordon, N.S., Panksepp, J., Dennis, M. & McSweeny, J. (2005). The
instinctual basis of human affect: Affective and fMRI imaging of
laughter and crying. Neuro-Psychoanalysis, 7, 215-217.
2006:
Kroes, R.A., Panksepp, J., Burgdorf, J., Otto, N.J., & Moskal, J.R.
(2006). Social dominance-submission gene expression patterns in rat
neocortex. Neuroscience, 137, 37-49.
Burgdorf, J. & Panksepp, J (2006). The neurobiology of positive
emotions. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 30, 173-187.
Burgdorf, J., Panksepp, J., Beinfeld, M.C., .Kroes, R.A. & Moskal, J.R.
(2006). Regional brain cholecystokinin changes as a function of
rough-and-tumble play behavior in adolescent rats. Peptides. 27,
172-177.
Deak, T. & Panksepp, J. (2006). Play behavior in rats pretreated with
scopolamine: increased play solicitation by the non-injected partner.
Physiology & Behavior, 87: 120-125.
PubMed Publications (Note: PubMed Search may produce additional
"Panksepp" authors.)
2007
Alcaro, A., Huber, R., & Panksepp, J.
(2007).
Behavioral functions of the
mesolimbic dopaminergic system: An affective neuroethological
perspective.
Brain Research Reviews,
56(2), 283–321.
Burgdorf, J., Wood, P. L., Kroes, R. A., Moskal, J. R., & Panksepp, J.
(2007). Neurobiology of 50-kHz ultrasonic vocalizations in rats:
Electrode mapping, lesion, and pharmacology studies.
Behavioural Brain Research 182,
274-283.
Bilgrami, A., Feve, A., Goldstein, R., Hustvedt, S., Panksepp, J. &
Whitebook, J. (2007). Free will.
Philoctetes, 1,
47-68.
Kroes, R. A., Burgdorf, J., Otto, N. J., Panksepp,
J., & Moskal, J. R. (2007). Social defeat, a paradigm of depression in
rats that elicits 22-kHz vocalizations, preferentially activates the
cholinergic signaling pathway in the periaqueductal gray.
Behavioural Brain Research, 182, 290-300.
Nocjar, C., & Panksepp, J. (2007). Prior morphine
experience induces long-term increases in social interest and in
appetitive behavior for natural reward.
Behavioural Brain Research, 181(2),
191-199.
Biven, L., & Panksepp, J. (2007). Commentary on
“Toward a neuroscience of empathy: Integrating affective and cognitive
perspectives”. Neuro-Psychoanalysis,
9, 141-146.
Panksepp J. (2007).
The neuroevolutionary and neuroaffective psychobiology of the
prosocial brain. In R.I.M. Dunbar and L. Barrett (eds.)
The Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology (pp. 145-162)
Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Panksepp J. (2007). Affective Consciousness.
In M. Velmans and S. Schneider (eds.)
The Blackwell Companion to
Consciousness. (pp. 114-129) Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, Ltd.
Panksepp,
J. (2007). Neuroevolutionary sources of laughter and social joy:
Modeling primal human laughter in laboratory rats.
Behavioral Brain Research, 182,
231-244.
Panksepp J. (2007) Neurologizing the psychology of affects:
How appraisal-based constructivism and basic emotion theory can
coexist.
Perspectives on Psychological Science 2, 281-296.
Panksepp, J. (2007). Can
PLAY diminish ADHD and facilitate the construction of the social brain?
Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 16,
57-66.
Panksepp, J. (2007). Criteria for basic emotions:
Is DISGUST a primary “emotion”?
Cognition and Emotion, 21, 1819-1828.
Panksepp, J. (2007). Neuro-psychoanalysis may
enliven the mindbrain sciences.
Cortex, 43(8), 1106-1107.
Stein, D. J., van Honk, J., Ipser, J., Solms, M., &
Panksepp, J. (2007). Opioids: from physical pain to the pain of social
isolation. CNS Spectrums, 12(9),
669-674.
Panksepp, J. (2007). Emotional feelings originate
below the neocortex: Toward a neurobiology of the soul.
Behavioral and Brain Sciences,
30(1) 101-103.
Panksepp, J., Burgdorf, J., Beinfeld, M. C., Kroes, R., & Moskal, J.
(2007) Brain regional
neuropeptide changes resulting from social defeat.
Behavioral Neuroscience, 121, 1364-1371.
Panksepp, J. & Ciompi,
L. (2007). Affective ‘comets’ leave swirling emotional residues in
schizophrenia.
Philoctetes,
1, 27-34.
Panksepp, J., Fuchs, T., Abella Garcia, V., & Lesiak, A. (2007).
Does any aspect of mind survive brain damage that typically leads to a
persistent vegetative state? Ethical considerations.
Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities
in Medicine, 2(32), doi:10.1186/1747-5341-2-32.
2008
Burdorf, J., Kroes, R. A., Moskal, J. R., Pfaus, J.
G., Brudzynski, S. M., & Panksepp, J. (2008). Ultrasonic vocalizations
of rats (Rattus norvegicus) during mating, play, and aggression:
Behavioral concomitants, relationship to reward, and self-administration
of playback. Journal of
Comparative Psychology, 122, 357-367.
(Frank A. Beach Comparative Psychology Award, 'Presented in recognition
of the best paper published in 2008 in the
Journal of Comparative Psychology.
Division 6,
American Psychological Association).
Gallagher, S. & Panksepp, J.
(2008). How to undress the affective mind: An interview with Jaak
Panksepp. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 15, 89-119.
Krueger, J. M., Rector, D. M., Roy, S., Van Dongen,
H. P. A., Belenky, G., & Panksepp, J. (2008). Sleep as a fundamental
property of neuronal assemblies.
Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 9, 910-919.
Northoff, G., & Panksepp, J. (2008). The trans-species concept of self
and the subcortical-cortical midline system.
Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 12,
259-264.
Harmon, K.M., Cromwell, H.C.,
Burgdorf, J., Moskal, J.R., Brudzynski, S.M., Kroes, R.A., Panksepp, J.
(2008) Rats selectively bred for low levels of 50 kHz ultrasonic
vocalizations exhibit alterations in early social motivation.
Developmental Psychobiology, 50: 322-31.
Panksepp, J. (2008). Simulating
the primal affective mentalities of the mammalian brain: A fugue on the
emotional feelings of mental life and implications for AI-robotics.
In D. Dietrich, G. Fodor, G. Zucker & D. Bruckner (Eds.)
Simulating the mind: A technical
neuropsychoanalytic approach. (pp. 149-177.
Vienna/New York: Springer.
Panksepp, J., & Moskal, J. (2008) Dopamine and SEEKING Subcortical
"reward" systems and appetitive urges. In: A.J. Elliot (Ed.),
Handbook of approach and avoidance motivation (pp.67-87). New York:
Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
Panksepp,
J. (2008). Motivation.
In. L. Swartx, C. de la Rey, N. Duncan & L. Townsend (Eds).
Psychology: An Introduction.
(pp. 215-226). Cape
Town, South Africa: Oxford University Press.
Panksepp, J., (2008). PLAY, ADHD and the construction of the
social brain: Should the first class each day be recess?
American Journal of Play, 1: 55-79.
Panksepp, J. (2008). The affective brain and
core-consciousness: How does neural activity generate emotional
feelings? In M. Lewis, J. Haviland
& L.F. Barrett (Eds.),
The Handbook of Emotions (2nd ed., pp. 47-67). New York:
Guilford.
Panksepp, J. (2008). The power of the word may reside in the power of
affect. Integrative Physiological
and Behavioral Science, 42, 47-55.
Panksepp, J. (2008).
Cognitive conceptualism—Where have affects gone? Additional
corrections for Barrett et al. (2007).
Perspectives on
Psychological Science, 3, 305-308.
Panksepp, J. (2008). Commentary on “Is there a
drive to love?”. Neuro-Psychoanalysis,
10, 166-169.
Panksepp,
J., & Trevarthen, C. (2008). The neuroscience of emotion in music. In S.
Maloch & C. Trevarthen (Eds),
Communicative Musicality. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Zinken, J., Knoll, M. & Panksepp, J (2008) Universality and
diversity in the vocalization of emotions. In: K. Izbedski (ed.)
Emotions in the human voice, Vol. 1. Foundations (pp
185-202), San Diego, CA: Plural Publishing, Inc.
Burgdorf, J., Panksepp, J., Brudzynski, S. M.,
Beinfeld, M. C., Cromwell, H. C., Kroes, R. A., & Moskal, J. R. (2008).
The effects of selective breeding for differential rates of 50-kHz
ultrasonic vocalizations on emotional behavior in rats.
Developmental Psychobiology, 51,
34-46.
2009
Mu, P., Fuchs, T., Saal, D. B., Sorg, B. A., Dong,
Y., & Panksepp, J. (2009). Repeated cocaine exposure induces
sensitization of ultrasonic vocalization in rats.
Neuroscience Letters, 453,
31-35.
Northoff, G., Schneider, F., Rotte, M., Matthiae,
C., Tempelmann, C., Wiebking, C., Bermpohl, F., Heinzel, A., Danos, P.,
Heinze, H-J., Bogerts, B., Walter, M., & Panksepp, J. (2009).
Differential parametric modulation of self-relatedness and emotions in
different brain regions. Human
Brain Mapping, 30, 369-382.
Nathaniel, T. I., Panksepp, J., & Huber, R. (2009).
Drug-seeking behavior in an invertebrate system: Evidence of
morphine-induced reward, extinction and reinstatement in crayfish.
Behavioural Brain Research, 197, 331-338.
Panksepp, J., & Northoff, G. (2009). The trans-species core SELF: The
emergence of active cultural and neuro-ecological agents through
self-related processing within subcortical-cortical midline networks.
Consciousness and Cognition, 18, 193-215.
Bohland, J. W., Wu, C., Barbas, H., Bokil, H., Bota,
M., Breiter, H. C., et al. (2009). A proposal for a coordinated effort
for the determination of brainwide neuroanatomical connectivity in model
organisms at a mesoscopic scale.
PLoS Computational Biology5(3), e1000334.
Daftary, S. S., Panksepp, J., Dong, Y., & Saal, D.
B. (2009). Stress-induced, glucocorticoid-dependent strengthening of
glutamatergic synaptic transmission in midbrain dopamine neurons.
Neuroscience Letters, 452, 273-276.
Deak, T., Arakawa, H., Bekkedal, M. Y. V., &
Panksepp, J. (2009). Validation of a novel social investigation task
that may dissociate social motivation from exploratory activity.
Behavioural Brain Ressearch, 199, 326-333.
Brown, N., & Panksepp, J. (2009). Low-dose
naltrexone for disease prevention and quality of life.
Medical Hypotheses, 72,
333-337.
Panksepp, J. (2009). Primary process affects and
brain oxytocin. Biological
Psychiatry, 65, 725-727.
Watt, D.F. &
Panksepp, J. (2009).
Depression: an evolutionarily conserved mechanism to terminate
separation-distress? A review of aminergic, peptidergic, and neural
network perspectives.
Neuropsychoanalysis, 11,
5-104.
Panksepp, J (2009). Brain emotional systems
and qualities of mental life: From animal models of affect to
implications for psychotherapeutics.
In D. Fosha (ed). The
Embodied Mind: Integration of the Body, Brain and Mind in clinical
practice In Press.
Panksepp J. (2009) The emotional antecedents to the evolution of
music ad language. Musicae Scientiae, In Press.
Biographical Information
Born in Tartu, Estonia, Jaak Panksepp has authored and/or edited nine
(9) books and over 330 journal articles and reviews. He received his
Ph.D. in 1969 from University of Massachusetts (Amherst), did two years
of post-doctoral work in nutrition and body energy balance at the School
of Biology, University of Sussex, and a year in sleep physiology at the
Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology (Massachusetts), before
joining the Department of Psychology at Bowling Green State University
(Ohio). In January of 2006 he joined the WSU College of Veterinary
Medicine and Department of VCAPP and CSAW as the Baily Endowed Chair of
Animal Well-Being Science.
Professional Experience
1977 - 1988: Professor; Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green,
OH
1988 - present: Distinguished Research Professor of Psychobiology, BGSU
(Emeritus since 1998)
1999 - 2000: Visiting Professor, Dept. of Psychology, University of
Michigan
1990 - present: Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry, Medical College of
Ohio at Toledo
1994 - 2004 Director, Memorial Foundation for Lost Children
2001 - presentHead, Affective Neuroscience Research, Chicago Institute
for Neurosurgery and Neuroresearch and Falk Center for Molecular
Therapeutics
2001 - 2005: Adjunct Professor of Psychology, Northwestern University
2002 - 2003: Honorary Leverhulme Visiting Professor, University of
Portsmouth (UK)
2006- Baily Endowed Chair in Animal Well-Being Science, Washington
State University
2006- Research Co-Director: Hope for Depression Research Foundation
Teaching Expertise and Interests
- Brain Mechanisms of Behavior/ Affective Neuroscience
- Developmental Psychobiology/ Developmental Disorders
- Psychobiology of Emotions and Motivations
- Neuroanatomy, Neurophysiology and Neuropsychology
- Clinical Psychopharmacology/ Biological Psychiatry
- Experimental Methods
Additional Honors and Awards
- BGSU Special Achievement Award (1974 & 1975)
- BGSU Research and Development Award (1976)
- Sigma Xi Outstanding Young Scientist Award (1977)
- NIMH Research Scientist Development Award (1975 - 1980)
- Award, Meritorious Research in Autism, Toledo Soc. for Autism,
1987
- Outstanding Contributor to Graduate Education at BGSU (1988)
- Distinguished Research Professorship in Psychobiology, BGSU
(1988)
- Professional of the Year, NW Ohio Autism Society (1991)
- Member of Interdisciplinary Core Faculty, NIMH Post-doctoral
training program for the Study of Emotions (MH-18931), 3 Year
appointment, UC Berkeley and USF (1989-1991), 4 year re-appointment
(1992-1995), 2 year re-appointment, Univ. of WI (1996-1998)
- Professor of the Year, Psi Chi National Honor Soc., BGSU Chapter
(1996-1997)
- Zdenek Klein Awardfor Human Ethology, year 2002 for contribution
to the Special Issue on Human Ethology andEvolutionary Psychology
entitled "Comparative Approaches in Evolutionary Psychology:
Molecular Neuroscience
Meets the Mind" Supplement to the Neuroendocrinology Letters, Vol
23, Dec. 2002
- Honorary Doctorate, University of Tartu, Estonia (2004).
- Arnold Pfeffer Neuro-Psychoanalytic Prize, N. Y. Psychoanalytic
Institute (2005).
