Jaak panksepp biography
Jaak panksepp biography
Jaak panksepp affective neuroscience...
Jaak Panksepp
American neuroscientist (1943–2017)
Jaak Panksepp | |
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Jaak Panksepp (on the right) at the promotion of honorary doctors at the University of Tartu (December 2004). | |
| Born | June 5, 1943 Tartu, Estonia |
| Died | April 18, 2017(2017-04-18) (aged 73) Bowling Green, Ohio, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Pittsburgh (BS, 1965) University of Massachusetts, Amherst (MS, 1967) (PhD, 1969) |
| Known for | Pioneer in affective neuroscience |
| Awards | Order of the White Star |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Psychology, Neuropsychopharmacology, Affective neuroscience, Behavioral neuroscience |
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Jaak Panksepp (June 5, 1943 – April 18, 2017) was an Estonian-Americanneuroscientist and psychobiologist who coined the term "affective neuroscience", the name for the field that studies the neural mechanisms of emotion.
He was the Baily Endowed Chair of Animal Well-Being Science for the Department of Veterinary and C