Welcome back to Animal Introspective, the podcast all about animal wellbeing and the wellbeing of the people who care for them! How can we know what an animal is feeling? We can't totally know for sure, but there are some ways of inferring through studying.....*drum roll please*.......AFFECTIVE NEUROSCIENCE!!

To learn more about affective neuroscience, check these links out!:

Davis, K. L., & Montag, C. (2019). Selected Principles of Pankseppian Affective Neuroscience. Frontiers in neuroscience, 12, 1025. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2018.01025

Panksepp J. (2010). Affective neuroscience of the emotional BrainMind: evolutionary perspectives and implications for understanding depression. Dialogues in clinical neuroscience, 12(4), 533–545. https://doi.org/10.31887/DCNS.2010.12.4/jpanksepp 

The science of emotions: Jaak Panksepp at TEDxRainier. (2014). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65e2qScV_K8

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CREDITS
Co-Hosts: Stephanie Norton and Grace Hannon
Producer & Editor: Alexander Brauer
Music: Mystery Strings by moodmode