"It is an invaluable reference for any neuroscientist interested in understanding the neurobiological basis of drives and emotions where the best information is contained in the animal literature. This is the strength of Panksepp's book which summarizes and references these data around clinically recognizable concepts making the information highly relevant to practising clinicians." - Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences

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: Neurostatistics: 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: sources of nurturance and maternal behaviour
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

Jaak Panksepp

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