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9975 I I EFTA00809976 FOREWORD I met Stanley in June 2002, when I spoke at the United States Association for Body Psychotherapy Conference in Baltimore. The evening before my talk I received a message from Jim Oschman asking if he and Stanley could attend. Jim explained that I would enjoy meeting S

riability (HRV) 69 Testing for Vagal Function: Early Experiences 71 Discovering the Polyvagal Theory 73 Testing for Vagal Function: Cottingham, Porges, and Lyon 78 A Simple Test of the Pharyngeal Vagus Branch 81 How to Test for Pharyngeal Ventral Branch Function 82 Therapists can Test for Vaga

es our behavior. Thus the proper working of our autonomic nervous system is central to our emotional as well as physical health and well-being. Dr. Porges's Polyvagal framework has allowed me to achieve positive results with health issues as far-ranging as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD),

ould introduce me to him. Luckily, on my next trip to the United States to visit my family in Philadelphia, Stephen Porges was giving a lec- ture in Baltimore for the American Association of Body Psychotherapists. Jim was in Washington, DC, and all three of us were able to meet at the Baltimore conference

Polyvagal Theory in my clinical practice and in my teaching. When I went home to Denmark, I could not set up a lab to do the kind of testing that Porges had done, and I did not have access to his process of testing and acoustic stimulation. But I decided to work with certain clients on the autism sp

mediator of behavioral and visceral features associated with autism. In M. L. Bauman & T. L. Kemper (Eds.), The neurobiology of autism (pp. 65-78). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins 22 EFTA00284165 University Press. Porges, S. W. (2005b). The role of social engagement in attachment and bonding: A phylogenetic

of the phylogenetic system (the vagus nerve in particular) on neural structures regulating the heart and consequently behavior. 11 EFTA00284154 Porges states that when children feel unsafe, their behavioral response exists on a visceral level in the nervous system, which he calls "neuroception" or