Stephen W. Porges

TL;DR: The trials demonstrated that LPP, when contrasted to control conditions, selectively reduced auditory hypersensitivities, consistent with the polyvagal theory, which emphasizes the role of the middle ear muscles in social communication.

TL;DR: Results demonstrate that exercise performed in postabsorptive, but not in postprandial state, lowers glucoregulatory set point and glucagon glycemic threshold and is accompanied by reduced vagal tone, counterregulatory responses, and glucose threshold and by increased insulin-glucagon ratio.

TL;DR: The gustatory-vagal hypothesis, which proposes that gustatory stimulation elicits a coordinated vagal response manifested as an increase in ingestive behaviors and a decrease in nucleus ambiguus vagal tone measured by decreases in the amplitude of respiratory sinus arrhythmia, was tested in 29 clinically stable, high-risk, low-birthweight neonates.

TL;DR: A neurophysiological model based on the Polyvagal Theory is applied to interpret fetal heart rate patterns and it is proposed that both the transitory heart rate accelerations and the depression of the respiratory rhythm in the beat-to-beat heart rate pattern reflect a withdrawal of the vagal tone determined by myelinated vagal pathways originating in the nucleus ambiguus.