Stephen Porges: The Polyvagal Theory & The Vagal Nerve – #264

Stephen Porges comes to Bulletproof Radio to share his pioneering research on the vagus nerve, how the cues it receives play a major role in stress, social behavior and the nervous system and some tips on how to improve its response.

Dr. Porges is a Distinguished University Scientist at Indiana University where he directs the Trauma Research Center in the Kinsey Institute. He is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina, Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he directed the Brain-Body Center in the Department of Psychiatry, and Professor Emeritus at the University of Maryland, where he chaired the Department of Human Development and directed the Institute for Child Study. In 1994 he proposed the Polyvagal Theory, a theory that links the evolution of the mammalian autonomic nervous system to social behavior and emphasizes the importance of physiological state in the expression of behavioral problems and psychiatric disorders.

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Featured
Stephenporges.com - http://stephenporges.com/
A selection of Dr. Porges publications - http://stephenporges.com/index.php/scientific-articles
Talks by Dr. Porges on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/result....s?search_query=steph
Resources
Polyvagal Theory - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyvagal_Theory
Autonomic nervous system - http://www.merckmanuals.com/ho....me/brain-spinal-cord
Neuroception - http://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ938225
Hypoxia - http://www.webmd.com/asthma/gu....ide/hypoxia-hypoxemi
Phylogenetics - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phylogenetics
Vagus nerve - http://emedicine.medscape.com/....article/1875813-over
Heart rate variability - http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/93/5/1043.full
Vagal tone - http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O6-vagaltone.html
Apnea - http://kidshealth.org/parent/m....edical/lungs/aop.htm
Bradycardia - http://www.mayoclinic.org/dise....ases-conditions/brad
Homeostatic functions - http://www.wisegeek.com/what-a....re-the-different-typ
Nucleus ambiguus - http://www.britannica.com/science/nucleus-ambiguus
Myelination - http://tweenparenting.about.co....m/od/physicalemotion
Myelinated vagus nerve - http://masgutovamethod.com/con....tent/overlays/stephe
Pranayama yoga - http://www.yogajournal.com/cat....egory/poses/types/pr
Cranial nerve 5 - https://12cranialnerves.wordpr....ess.com/cranial-nerv
Cranial nerve 7 - https://12cranialnerves.wordpr....ess.com/cranial-nerv
Dr. Sue Carter - http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/about/carter.html
Dr. Lana - https://www.betterbabybook.com..../better-baby-coachin
Health registry database in Nordic countries - http://www.norden.org/en/fakta....-om-norden-1/figures
HIV’s impact on vagal recognition - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pm....c/articles/PMC374272
Ventral vagal state - http://reichandlowentherapy.or....g/Content/Vegetative
The Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education
On Combat - https://www.youtube.com/user/CcareStanford
Neuroception - http://www.amazon.com/On-Comba....t-Psychology-Physiol
Bulletproof
Heart rate variability training - https://www.bulletproofexec.co....m/how-to-biohack-you
HeartMath Institute - https://www.bulletproofexec.co....m/how-heartmath-trai
Bulletproof Road Map - https://www.bulletproofexec.co....m/the-complete-illus
Bulletproof Cookbook - http://www.amazon.com/Bulletproof-Diet-Cookbook-bulletproof-recipes-ebook/dp/B00QECPD9Q?utm_source=post&utm_medium=blog&utm_campaign=pod264