Stephen Porges

Scientist and professor (born 1945)

Stephen Porges
Stephen W. Porges (born 1945) is an American psychologist. He is the Professor of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Porges is also currently Director of the Kinsey Institute Traumatic Stress Research Consortium at Indiana University Bloomington, which studies trauma. . He was previously a professor at the University of Illinois, Chicago, where he was the director of the Brain-Body Center at the College of Medicine, and at the University of Maryland. He proposed the still-unproven polyvagal theory in 1994, which is not endorsed by current social neuroscience. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Porges

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