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In 1994, in his presidential lecture for the Society for Psychophysi-ological Research, Stephen Porges introduced his Polyvagal Theory,
Stanley Rosenberg • Accessing the Healing Power of the Vagus Nerve: Self-Help Exercises for Anxiety, Depression, Trauma, and Autism
The theory functionally states that if you are confronted with a challenge, based on evolution, the most recent part of your nervous system will attempt to negotiate safety by using the face and vocalizations. If that doesn’t work,
Stephen W. Porges • The Pocket Guide to the Polyvagal Theory: The Transformative Power of Feeling Safe (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)
The Polyvagal Theory posits that co-regulation through social behavior is a biological imperative—a need as hardwired into us as that for food or sleep.
Stephen W. Porges • Our Polyvagal World
Stephen Porges chose to work with autistic children, and has had suc-cess in improving the behavior of many of them.
Stanley Rosenberg • Accessing the Healing Power of the Vagus Nerve: Self-Help Exercises for Anxiety, Depression, Trauma, and Autism
When the alarm bell of the emotional brain keeps signaling that you are in danger, no amount of insight will silence it.
Bessel van der Kolk • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
when there is a down-regulation of muscle tone in the face and head, the middle ear muscles lose their neural tone and become hypersensitive to the low-frequency sounds associated with predator. With this shift in middle ear function, it becomes difficult to extract the meaning of human voice, since it is necessary to hear relatively soft, high-fre
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As a clinical psychologist, when you look at clients’ faces and listen to their voices, you are inferring information about their physiological state because the face and heart are wired together in the brainstem.