How to differentiate freeze from shutdown
Freeze and collapse both involve the inability to move. but while they might appear similar, they are very different physiological responses to stress or trauma.…
Category: Mental Health
Childhood Maltreatment Influences Autonomic Regulation and Mental Health in College Students
Childhood maltreatment history may influence autonomic reactivity and recovery to stressors. Hypothetically, the maltreatment history may contribute to a retuned autonomic nervous system that is…
Polyvagal Theory: A Science of Safety
Contemporary strategies for health and wellbeing fail our biological needs by not acknowledging that feelings of safety emerge from inside the body. This paper focuses…
Polyvagal Theory: A biobehavioral journey to sociality
A polyvagal perspective clarifies the neurobiological and biobehavioral shifts that occurred during evolutionary transition from asocial reptiles to social mammals. This transition enabled mammals, unlike…
Clinical Neuropsychiatry
The COVID-19 Pandemic is a Paradoxical Challenge to Our Nervous System: A Polyvagal Perspective Abstract: The spread of the SARSCov2 virus presents an unprecedented event…
Cyber Bullying
Considering the ways in which bullying can affect us and how we can help reduce its influence. What are the effects of Cyberbullying? Some signs…
Youth Wellbeing Executive Summary
The planning and commissioning of health and social care services should always proceed on the basis of the best available evidence. There are many forms…
Helping You With Depression
Recent studies show that between 8-12% of the population (more than 150,000 people in Northern Ireland) experience depression in any year, and depression is now…
