The polyvagal perspective.

By Stephen W. Porges. Biological Psychology, 2007

3,236 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Cognitive Neuroscience

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In Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine

1. F. Shaffer
2. Amy Finlay‐Jones
3. Paul Gilbert
4. Sylvain Laborde
5. E. Mosley
6. Julian F. Thayer
7. Sander L. Koole
8. P. Macintyre

In Cognitive Neuroscience

1. Paul Gilbert
2. Amy Finlay‐Jones
3. Barbara L. Fredrickson
4. F. Shaffer
5. K. Neff
6. Sylvain Laborde
7. E. Mosley
8. Julian F. Thayer

Citations in the corpus

• Psychological and Physiological Effects of Compassionate Mind Training: a Pilot Randomised Controlled Study (2017, background): “a practice focused on creating friendly facial expressions and voice tones as part of compassion (Porges, 2007); 3.”
• Reassessing Emotion Regulation (2008, background): “…in the brainstem nucleus ambiguous, provides input to the sinoatrial node of the heart, producing dynamic changes in cardiac activity that allow the organism to transition between sustaining metabolic processes and generating more complex responses to environmental events (Porges, 2007).”
• The Relationship between Self-compassion and Other-focused Concern among College Undergraduates, Community Adults, and Practicing Meditators (2013, background): “It also appeared to increase heart-rate variability, which is associated with a greater ability to self-soothe when stressed (Porges, 2007).”
• Introducing compassion-focused therapy (2009, background): “Porges (2007) has written extensively on the way the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems have undergone modifications in mammals to allow them to engage in close interpersonal relationships and soothe each other.”
• The Adaptive Calibration Model of stress responsivity (2010, positive): “In mammals, a specific role in this respect may be played by myelinated vagal fibres originating in the nucleus ambiguus, which apply a parasympathetic “brake” on cardiac activity (Porges, 1995, 2001, 2007).”
• Psychosocial and Psychophysiological Effects of Human-Animal Interactions: The Possible Role of Oxytocin (2012, neutral): “…linked to other constructs such as e.g., attachment theory, biophilia (Wilson, 1984), social support theories (Wills, 1991), the polyvagal theory (Porges, 1995, 2007, 2009) and the social baseline model (Coan, 2008, 2010, 2011) by a large body of studies which focus on stress regulation via…”
• The origins and nature of compassion focused therapy. (2014, background): “Particularlyimportantintheevolutionofcaring behaviourswastheadaptationofthemyelinatedparasympatheticnervoussystem (Porges,2007).”
• The polyvagal theory: New insights into adaptive reactions of the autonomic nervous system (2009, neutral): “This resulted in an anatomical and neurophysiological linkage between neural regulation of the heart via the myelinated vagus and the special visceral efferent pathways that regulate the striated muscles of the face and head, forming an integrated social engagement system ( Figure 1 ; for more detai”
• Autonomic nervous system activity in emotion: a review. (2010, neutral): “…(2000); Cloninger (1987); Davidson (1998); Lang and Bradley (this issue); Lang et al. (1997) Polyvagal theory Porges (1995); Porges et al. (1996); Porges (2001, 2007) Reinforcement sensitivity theory Beauchaine (2001); Corr (2008); Fowles (1980); Gray (1982, 1987); Gray and McNaughton…”