Jaak Panksepp, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jaak Panksepp

American neuroscientist

Date of Birth: 05-Jun-1943

Place of Birth: Tartu, Livonia Governorate, Sweden

Date of Death: 17-Apr-2017

Profession: professor, psychologist, neuroscientist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

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.