Affect before diagnosis: applying affective neuroscience to psychiatry (opens in new tab)

Jaak Panksepp spent nearly five decades mapping the primary-process affective systems of the mammalian brain across different species, producing a framework of considerable empirical power that is functionally invisible within psychiatry. Psychiatry has not built upon that literature in human contexts. Consequently, Affect has never occupied the foundational place in psychiatry that the evidence warrants. This paper attempts to close that gap and assembles twelve converging lines of evidence ...