The article discusses why depression hurts. It says that affective neuroscience consists of seven primary functions namely seeking, rage, fear, sexual lust, maternal care, separation
A cross-species affective neuroscience strategy for understanding the primary-process (basic) emotions is defended. The need for analyzing the brain and mind in terms of evolutionary
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