Baily Endowed Chair of Animal Well-Being Science, Department of Integrative Physiology and Neuroscience, College of Veterinary Medicine, Washington State University, Pullman, WA.

Jaak Panksepp, Ph.D. is Baily Endowed Professor of Animal Well-Being Science at the Department of Integrative Physiology & Neuroscience at the College of Veterinary Medicine, Washington State University, and Distinguished Research Professor, emeritus at Bowling Green State University, He is the founder of the field of Affective Neuroscience. Along with 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) and Archaeology of Mind: The Neuroevolutionary Origins of Human Emotions (Norton, 2012) and has edited a Textbook of Biological Psychiatry (Wiley, 2004) and seven other books.