Epstein Secrets

utilize the techniques in this book, you will notice improvement. EFTA00810001 I I EFTA00810002 PART ONE ANATOMICAL FACTS OLD AND NEW: THE POLYVAGAL THEORY Overcoming Health Challenges: Are You Fighting the Heads of the Hydra? Many people struggle with health issues. Often their stories are rem

6 Overcoming Health Challenges: Are You Fighting the Heads of the Hydra? • Excessive use of medicine with or without prescription • Autism, ADHD, Asperger's syndrome Interpersonal relationships • Excessive or unreasonable distrust • Difficulty in reaching agreements • Loss of interest in sex Mental

are exposed to bright light, when we wish to cut down on visual input, when there is something 65 EFTA00810067 ANATOMICAL FACTS OLD AND NEW: THE POLYVAGAL THEORY that we do not want to see emotionally, or when we want to withdraw from external sensory stimuli and contemplate our own thoughts. When we

disappear. 161 EFTA00810163 I I EFTA00810164 CHAPTER 7 Autism Spectrum Disorders The term autism spectrum disorders (ASD) includes autism, Asperger's syndrome, and other conditions. (ADHD is not defined as an autism spec- trum disorder.) ASD encompasses a wide range of symptoms, levels of impai

ral model linking autistic behavior to specific physiological states of the autonomic nervous 165 EFTA00810167 ANATOMICAL FACTS OLD AND NEW: THE POLYVAGAL THEORY system. This allows us the possibility to develop more effective strategies for treating autism. When we see that many of these individuals

(as Porges discovered) and not CN VIII, the auditory nerve, often incorrectly assumed to be exclusively responsible for hearing. When an autistic, Asperger's, or otherwise challenging child comes to my clinic, I ask the parents about their child's hearing. Invariably, they say that their child's hearin