...an ambitious volume, covering a broad swath of important recent research...will undoubtedly appeal to those with research interests in the neuroscientific aspects of psychiatry... (Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 291, No. 17, May 5, 2004)
I would recommend this book as a highly current resource summarizing our knowledge concisely and accurately, pointing to future avenues with great optimism and mastery, and painting an overall very bright view of the team effort that has brought us to our current state. (Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, August 2004)
Jaak Panksepp was an Estonian neuroscientist and psychobiologist who coined the term affective neuroscience, the name for the field that studies the neural mechanisms of emotion.
J. P. Scott Center for Neuroscience, Mind and Behavior, Department of Psychology, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio and Falk Center for Molecular Therapeutics, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois and Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry, Medical College of Ohio, Toledo.