Six of the primary-process subcortical brain emotion systems – SEEKING, RAGE, FEAR, CARE, GRIEF and PLAY – are presented as foundational for human personality development,
In the early nineties of the twentieth century Jaak Panksepp coined the term “Affective Neuroscience†(AN) today being accepted as a unique research area in
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