Affective Neuroscience and the Mammalian Brain

Following is an exerpt of theory from my master thesis on “Animated Documentaries – Emotions, Realism and Genre” Jaak Panksepp (1943-2017) was a neurologist and psycho-biologist studying animal emotions through neuroscience. His claim in the book “Affective Neuroscience – The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions” (1998) was that we can learn a lot from…