Since the 19th century, there has been disagreement over the fundamental question of
whether" emotions" are cause or consequence of their associated behaviors. This question …

The primal affects are intrinsic brain value systems that unconditionally and automatically
inform animals how they are faring in survival. They serve an essential function in emotional …

How consciousness appeared much earlier in evolutionary history than is commonly
assumed, and why all vertebrates and perhaps even some invertebrates are conscious …

It is commonly believed that consciousness is a higher brain function. Here we consider the
likelihood, based on abundant neuroevolutionary data that lower brain affective …

Appetitive motivation and incentive states are essential functions sustained by a common
emotional brain process, the SEEKING disposition, which drives explorative and approach …

There is recognition that biomedical research into the causes of mental disorders and their
treatment needs to adopt new approaches to research. Novel biomedical techniques have …

Six of the primary-process subcortical brain emotion systems–SEEKING, RAGE, FEAR,
CARE, GRIEF and PLAY–are presented as foundational for human personality …

A CHOICE Magazine Outstanding Academic Title of 2018. A novel approach to
understanding personality, based on evidence that we share more than we realize with …

Abstract The “affective” and “cognitive” neuroscience approaches to understanding emotion
(AN and CN, respectively) represent potentially synergistic, but as yet unreconciled …

This book focuses on the matter of neuropsychoanalysis. It shows how the
neuropsychoanalytic approach makes it possible to begin to locate within the tissues of the …