Jaak Panksepp – Notre Dame Symposium on Human Nature and Early Experience

Learn more about the Evolved Nest at 2010 Notre Dame Symposium to Address Early Human Experience About Jaak Panksepp Jaak Panksepp (June 5, 1943 – April 18, 2017) was an Estonian neuroscientist and psychobiologist who coined the term “affective neuroscience“, the name for the field that studies the neural mechanisms of emotion. He was the Baily Endowed Chair of Animal Well-Being Science for the Department of Veterinary and Comparative Anatomy, Pharmacology, and Physiology at Washington State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine, and Emeritus Professor of the Department of Psychology at Bowling Green State University. He was known in the popular press for his research on laughter in non-human animals. About the Symposium The University of Notre Dame’s Center for Children and Families is hosted a symposium, Human Nature and Early Experience: Addressing the ‘Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness,’ on October 10 to 12, 2010 at McKenna Hall on N