NEUROPLASTICITY AND EMOTIONAL PROCESSES OF THE BRAIN: DR JAAK PANKSEPP
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PROGRAMME
Monday 4 June 2012
09.00 Registration and coffee
10.00 The Affective foundations of mind: Brain mechanisms of primary-process emotionality
This introductory session will provide a working understanding of how emotional feelings are created in the brain and how this provides a new understanding of the foundations of consciousness and therapeutic change. We will focus on nature of basic emotional processes as revealed through the study of the neuroscience, including insights from human brain imaging. This will provide an effective framework for a better understanding of how feelings of sadness/grief and playful-joy are created in the brain, and their impact on our understanding of the mind and its disorders. Special focus will be on the implications of this knowledge for understanding a variety of clinical problems including anxiety, depression, panic attacks, PTSD and childhood disorders such as autism and ADHD.
11.15 Coffee
11.45 The Sources of Psychic Pain: Antecedents to Depression and Therapeutic Implications
This session will focus on a neuroscientific understanding of social bonding and the separation-distress-emanating from the PANIC system of mammalian brains-that underlies depression and many other forms of psychological pain. The linkages to various psychiatric disorders, including depression and autism, will be summarised. New therapeutic strategies that emerge from this understanding will be discussed, including the utility of EMDR therapies for PTSD. Also, the Affective Neuroscience Personality Scales will be introduced to provide an objective measure of clients emotional strengths and weaknesses.
13.00 Lunch
14.00 The BrainMind mechanisms of SEEKING: The sources of psychological aliveness, eagerness, and clinical implications.
Mammalian brains contain a fundamental emotional substrate for positive feelings and behaviours that accompany the energetic, positively motivated activities that serve all our emotional and bodily needs. This general purpose system, of foremost importance for understanding human motivations as well as many psychiatric disorders and their treatments, has only recently been recognised in neuroscience. Totally new therapeutics that are emerging from this understanding will be summarised.
15.45 The primal sources of psychic joy: New antidepressant therapies, both somatic and psychotherapeutic
The concluding session will focus on how a modern neuroscientific understanding of primary-process PLAY within the brain gives us a desperately needed understanding of the sources of joy within the brain. Direct ways to utilize this knowledge in therapeutic interventions will be discussed, providing new avenues for the development of more effective clinical interventions not only for depression but all clinical problems characterized by negative moods.
17.00 End
THE SPEAKER
Dr Jaak Panksepp is currently the Baily Endowed Professor of Animal Well-Being Science at Washington State University, and founder of the field of Affective Neuroscience. Along with many students and colleagues, he has published over 400 scientific articles, chapters and reviews devoted to elucidating the basic mechanisms of motivations and emotions as well as the fundamental nature of consciousness and self-representation in the brain. He is the author of Affective Neuroscience: the Foundation of Human and Animal Emotions (Oxford, 1998), editor of a Textbook of Biological Psychiatry (Wiley, 2004) and seven other books. His Archaeology of Mind is forthcoming (Norton, 2012). Panksepp's current work is devoted to the analysis of emotional behaviours and their relations to models of psychiatric disorders. His main research interest is unravelling the nature of primary-process emotions in the mammalian brain-SEEKING, FEAR, RAGE, LUST, CARE, PANIC and PLAY (caps reflect a scientific terminology for primary-affective processes of the BrainMind)-and seeking linkages to new clinical insights. His past work led to a new treatment of autistic children and current work is devoted to non-pharmacological therapies for ADHD. Novel ideas for new anti-depressants and anti-suicide agents are currently being clinically evaluated.
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