# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jaak-panksepp
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:25:55.962Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jaak-panksepp"
name: "Jaak Panksepp"
slug: "jaak-panksepp"
description: "Jaak Panksepp 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. 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."
tagline: "American-Estonian neuroscientist (1943-2017)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jaak_Panksepp_(2004).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1943-06-05"
deathDate: "2017-04-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.02540220152413209
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump