# Jaak Panksepp

Neuroscientist who founded affective neuroscience, mapping primary emotional systems in the brain across species.

**Lived:** 1943–2017 (b. Tartu, Estonia)
**Nationality:** Estonian-American
**Training:** University of Pittsburgh (1964); Ph.D. University of Massachusetts
**Affiliation:** Washington State University College of Veterinary Medicine; Bowling Green State University Department of Psychology

## Key works

- *Affective Neuroscience: The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions* (1998)
- *The Archaeology of Mind: Neuroevolutionary Origins of Human Emotion* (2012)
- *The Emotional Foundations of Personality: A Neurobiological and Evolutionary Approach* (2018)
- *A Textbook of Biological Psychiatry* (2004)