Affective neuroscience : the foundations of human and animal emotions / / Jaak Panksepp

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910829093803321
• Autore: Panksepp Jaak <1943->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Oxford University Press, 1998
• ISBN: 0-19-773457-X; 0-19-988435-8; 1-280-70419-5; 0-19-802567-X
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 466 pages : illustrations)
• Collana: Series in affective science
• Disciplina: 156/.24
• Soggetti: Emotions; Emotions and cognition; Emotions - Social aspects; Psychobiology; Psychology, Comparative
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Previously issued in print: 1998.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-429) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- PART I: CONCEPTUAL BACKGROUND -- 1 Affective Neuroscience: History and Major Concepts -- 2 Emotional Operating Systems and Subjectivity: Methodological Problems and a Conceptual Framework for the Neurobiological Analysis of Affect -- 3 The Varieties of Emotional Systems in the Brain: Theories, Taxonomies, and Semantics -- 4 Neurostatics: The Anatomy of the Brain/Mind -- 5 Neurodynamics: The Electrical Languages of the Brain -- 6 Neurodynamics: Neurochemical Maps of the Brain -- PART II: BASIC EMOTIONAL AND MOTIVATIONAL PROCESSES -- 7 Sleep, Arousal, and Mythmaking in the Brain -- 8 SEEKING Systems and Anticipatory States of the Nervous System -- 9 Energy Is Delight: The Pleasures and Pains of Brain Regulatory Systems -- 10 Nature Red in Tooth and Claw: The Neurobiological Sources of Rage and Anger -- 11 The Sources of Fear and Anxiety in the Brain -- PART III: THE SOCIAL EMOTIONS -- 12 The Varieties of Love and Lust: Neural Control of Sexuality -- 13 Love and the Social Bond: The Sources of Nurturance and Maternal Behavior -- ; 14 Loneliness and the Social Bond: The Brain Sources of Sorrow and Grief -- 15 Rough-and-Tumble Play: The Brain Sources of Joy -- 16 Emotions, the Higher Cerebral Processes, and the SELF: Some Are Born to Sweet Delight, Some Are Born to Endless Night -- Appendix A: Bones, Brains, and Human Origins -- Appendix B: The Brain, Language, and Affective Neuroscience -- Appendix C: Dualism in the Neurosciences -- Notes -- Author Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z -- Subject Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
• Sommario/riassunto: Taking a psychobiological approach, this text argues that emotional systems in humans, as well as other animals, are combinations of innate and learned tendencies and that there are no credible ways to really separate nature and nurture.