1.4. The Second Polyvagal Circle
1.4.0 Introduction
1.4.1 Daniel Siegel
1.4.2 Allan Schore
1.4.3 Louis Cozolino
1.4.4 Norman Doidge
1.4.5 Ruth Lanius
1.4.6 Ulrich Lanius
1.4.7 Gabor Maté
1.4.8 Babette Rothschild
1.4.9 Stanley Rosenberg
1.4.10 Ronald Siegel
1.4.11 Deb Dana
1.4.12 Janina Fisher
1.4.13 Sandra Paulsen

1.5 The Third Polyvagal Circle
1.5.0 Introduction
1.5.1 Authors
1.5.2 International Literature
1.5.3 Therapists
1.5.4 Body-centered Therapies
1.5.5 Professional Trainings
1.5.6 NICABM
1.5.7 ISC
1.5.8 Press Houses
1.5.9 Images and Videos
1.5.10 Clients and fans

1.6 The Name-Droppers
1.6.0 Introduction
1.6.1 The Name-Droppers
1.6.2 Structural Dissociation

1.7 Debunking the Polyvagal Theory
1.7.0 Introduction
1.7.1 Paul Grossman
1.7.2 Edwin W. Taylor
1.7.3 Karemaker
1.7.4 Berntson & Cacioppo
1.7.5 Neuhuber & Berthoud
1.7.6 Doody, Dinets & Burghardt
1.7.7 Around the Autism
1.7.8 Internet

1.8 The Scientific Community
1.8.0 Introduction
1.8.1 Anatomy
1.8.2 Physiology (Gourine, Thayer)
1.8.3 Beauchaine
1.8.4 Other Fields

1.9 Polyvagal Community: an Overview

Part 2 THE FACTS

2.1         Vocabulary of Neuroanatomy
2.1.0       Introduction
2.1.1        The Brain
2.1.2       Neurons
2.1.3      Cortex, nuclei, and ganglia
2.1.4       Nervous System
2.1.5       Neural Fibers
2.1.6       Myelin
2.1.7       Somatic vs. Autonomic Fibers
2.1.8       Nerves
2.1.9       Afferent vs. Efferent Nerves
2.1.10     Cranial vs. Spinal Nerves
2.1.11     The Central Nervous System
2.1.12     The Peripheral Nervous System
2.1.13     Somatic vs. Visceral
2.1.14     The Visceral Nervous System
2.1.15     Cranial Nerves
2.1.16     Vagal Nerve
2.1.17     Medulla
2.1.18     Ventral vs. Dorsal
2.1.19     Orthovagal vs. Polyvagal

2.2 Ontogeny & Phylogeny
2.2.0      Introduction
2.2.1       Old Biological Models
2.2.2      Where the Paths Diverge
2.2.3    Tripartite
2.2.4      First Vertebrates
2.2.5      Evolution
2.2.6      Cardiorespiratory Interactions
2.2.7      Polyvagal Phylogeny
2.2.8      Cladistic vs. Polyvagal Phylogeny
2.2.9      Embryology
2.2.10     Branchio-pharyngeal Apparatus
2.2.11     Neural Tube and Crests
2.2.12     Origins of the CNS & PNS
2.2.13     Nuclei in the Brainstem
2.2.14     Ontogeny and PVT

2.3 Hierarchy
2.3.0. Introduction
2.3.1 The Ladder Model
     a) Phylogeny
     b) Ontogeny
     c) Anatomy
     d) Neuropathology
    e) Physiology
2.3.2 Not old, but conserved
2.3.3 Homology
2.3.4 Our Asocial Reptile Ancestors
2.3.5 Phylogeny of the Nucleus Ambiguus
2.3.6 Comparative Anatomy
2.3.7 Universal Vertebral Blueprint
2.3.8 Culture
2.3.9 Primitive Brain & the Savage
2.3.10 Further Reading

2.4 Sudden Death
2.4.0 Introduction
2.4.1 The Neonatologist
2.4.2 Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
2.4.3 Serotonin and SDI
2.4.4 Dive Reflex
2.4.5 Trigeminal Reflex
2.4.6 Voodoo Death
2.4.7 Karoshi Death from Overwork
2.4.8 Sudden Cardiac Arrest
2.4.9 Athletes Heart Attack
2.4.10 Genetics
2.4.11 Kathleen Folbigg's tragic fate
2.4.12 Caveats of the "Vagal Paradox"

2.5 Ventral Vagal Complex
2.5.0 Introduction
2.5.1 Ventral Vagal Complex (VVC)
2.5.2 What the Science says?
2.5.3 Functionality and Interactions
2.5.4 Orthovagal Model
2.5.5 Ventral Bradycardia
2.5.6 The Optogenetic Revolution
2.5.7 Genetic Dissection
2.5.8 Respiratory Centers

2.6 Dorsal Vagal Complex
2.6.0 Introduction
2.6.1 Dorsal Vagal Complex
2.6.2 Dorsal Vagal Anatomy
2.6.3 NTS Nucleus Tractus Solitarius
2.6.4 NTS and Visceral Integration
2.6.5 Dorsal Vagal & the Appetite
2.6.6 Weight Control
2.6.7 Interoception
2.6.8 Dorsal Vagal Motor Nucleus
2.6.9 Polyvagal vs. Orthovagal Model
2.6.10 Research about the DVMN
2.6.11 DVMN and the Immune System
2.6.12 DVMN and Metabolism
2.6.13 The Area Postrema
2.6.14 DVC and Depression
2.6.15 DVC and Polyvagal Theory
2.6.16 More Facts

2.7 Sympathetic System
2.7.0 Introduction
2.7.1 Vocabulary
2.7.2 Anatomy
2.7.3 Fight and Flight
2.7.4 Catecholamines
2.7.5 Old Sympathetic System
2.7.6 Adrenergic System
2.7.7 Metabolism and Digestion
2.7.8 Polyvagal Misconceptions
     a) Dystopic
     b) Moving
     c) Hormosis and Cold
     d) Immunology
     e) Surviving
     f) Metabolic
     g) Phylogeny
     h) Cognitive and Social
    i) Sympathetic System & Love
     k) Mitochondria and SNS
    l) SNS and the Vagal Nerve
2.7.10 Literature

2.8 Social engagement
2.8.0 Introduction
2.8.1 Polyvagal Social Hypotheses
2.8.2 Compared to what?
2.8.3 Social vs. Solitary
2.8.4 Sympathetic Bonding
2.8.5 Calling
2.8.6 Parental Care
2.8.7 Facial Expression
2.8.8 Beyond the Smart Vagal
2.8.9 Eyes Movements
2.8.10 Full Body Contact
2.8.11 Phylogeny of Communication
2.812 Opioids and Social Behavior
2.8.13 Reptiles and Othering
2.8.14 Is HRV a Social Marker?
2.8.15 Safety
2.8.16 Sex and the PVT

2.9 Heart Rate Variability
2.9.0 Heart Rate Variability
2.9.1 What is HRV?
2.9.2 Tonic vs. Phasic
2.9.3 Polyvagal Paradox
2.9.4 Measuring HRV
2.9.5 Temporal Scales
2.9.6 Frequency Scales
2.9.7 Source of the HRV
2.9.8 Central Respiratory Oscillators
2.9.9 Respiratory Pacemakers
2.9.10 Fetal Heart Rate
2.9.11 Fetal Heart Rate Variability fHRV
2.9.12 Challenging the PVT
2.9.13 Phylogeny and Comparative Anatomy
2.9.14 Beauchaine
2.9.15 Social vs. Antisocial Behavior
2.9.16 HRV and Sympathetic System
2.9.17 Complexity and Variability
2.9.18 White Matter, EEG, and Connectivity
2.9.19 HRV and Aging
2.9.20. HRV and Energy

2.10 Hearing and Autism
2.10.0 Introduction
2.10.1 Hearing and Auditory Reflexes
2.10.2 Cortical Modulation
2.10.3 Reptiles and Autism
2.10.4 PVT and Autism
2.10.5 Mammalian vs. Non-mammalian
2.10.6 Autism and ANS
2.10.7 Autism and Genetics
2.10.8 More

2.11 Dissociation
2.11.0 Introduction
2.11.1 Psychotraumatology
2.11.2 Neurobiology
2.11.3 Hypnosis
2.11.4 Neuroimaging & Structural Dissociation
2.11.5 Dissociation and Opioids
2.11.6 PVT and Dissociation
2.11.7 PVT-influence Research
2.11.8 Further Reading

2.12 Dorsal Vagal Shutdown
2.12.0 Introduction
2.12.1 Freezing vs. Tonic Immobility
2.12.2 PAG & Immobility
2.12.3 PAG Literature
2.12.4 Immobility & Meditation
2.12.5 Quiescence
2.12.6 Sleep
2.12.7 Dive Reflex
2.12.8 Hibernation
2.12.9 Learned Helplessness
2.12.10 Depression
2.12.11 Further Reading

2.13 Emotions
2.13.0 Introduction
2.13.1 What are Emotions
2.13.2 James-Lang vs. Cannon-Bard
2.13.3 Bottom-up vs. Top-down
2.13.4 Somatic System
2.13.5 The Soldier and the Cook
2.13.6 Exercising
2.13.7 Calm and Anxiety
2.13.8 PVT and Emotions
2.13.9. Inconsistencies

2.14 Polyvagal Perspectives: a Review

Part 3 THE METHOD

3.1. Epistemology
3.1.0 How do we now?
3.1.1 Misinformation
3.1.2 What is Epistemology?
3.1.3 Rhetoric
3.1.4 Narrative Economics
3.1.5 Teleology
3.1.6 The Mammalian Agenda

3.2 Polyvagal Fallacies
3.2.0 Introduction
     1) Fallacies of attention
     2) Group and Divide
     3) Cause and Effect
     4) Playing with the words
     5) Appeal to emotion
     6) The Straw Man
     7) Inconsistencies

Part 4 PVT IN ACTION

4.1.0 Polyvagal Informed
4.1.1 Neuromarketing
4.1.2 Healing the Vagal Nerve
4.1.3 Osteopaths
4.1.4 The Accessory Nerve CN XI
4.1.5 Stretching

4.2.0 Auditory Training
4.2.1 Tomatis Method
4.2.2 Berard AIT
4.2.3 Other Programs
4.2.4 Sound and Safe Protocol

4.3.1 Vagal Nerve Stimulation

Part 5 ALTERNATIVES

6.1.0 Alternatives
6.1.1 Past Therapeutic Models
6.1.2 From the Mind to the Body
6.1.3 Current Alternatives to PTV

6.2.0 A New Model
6.2.1 The Energy Tristate Model
6.2.2 Nomenclature
6.2.3 Colors
6.2.4 Valences
6.2.5 Orthovagal Anatomy
6.2.6 Resource-Oriented Flat Model
6.2.7 Hormesis vs. Comfort
6.2.8 Neurodiversity
6.2.9 Foods & Guts
6.2.10 A Global Visceral Network

6.3 Color World
6.3.1 Communication
6.3.2 Blue Zone
6.3.3 Green Zone
6.3.4 Too Green?
6.3.5 Structural Dissociation Theory
6.3.6 Threat vs. Energy
6.3.7 Colors of the Psychotherapy
6.3.8 Colors of the Cell