Jaak Panksepp

Jaak Panksepp
Jaak Panksepp (on the right) at the promotion of honorary doctors at the University of Tartu (December 2004).
Born	June 5, 1943 Tartu, Estonia
Died	April 18, 2017(2017-04-18) (aged 73) Bowling Green, Ohio, U.S.
Nationality	American
Alma mater	University of Pittsburgh (BS, 1965) University of Massachusetts, Amherst (MS, 1967) (PhD, 1969)
Known for	Pioneer in affective neuroscience
Awards	Order of the White Star
Scientific career
Fields	Psychology, Neuropsychopharmacology, Affective neuroscience, Behavioral neuroscience
Institutions	University of Sussex Worcester Foundation for Biomedical Research Bowling Green State University University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences Washington State University Northwestern University

Jaak Panksepp (June 5, 1943 – April 18, 2017) was an Estonian-American neuroscientist and psychobiologist who coined the term "affective neuroscience", the name for the field that studies the neural mechanisms of emotion.^[1][2][3] 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.^[4][5]