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Peer-reviewed findings, synthesis documents, and original analysis. Every paper carries an epistemic ceiling badge indicating the maximum confidence warranted by the evidence.
Trauma does not merely leave psychological marks — it reorganizes the architecture of threat detection, interoception, and autonomic regulation. This synthesis examines the evidence for trauma as a form of biological encoding that persists beyond conscious memory, shaping downstream behavior through non-narrative channels.
Porges' Polyvagal Theory offers a hierarchical model of autonomic nervous system function with significant implications for understanding behavioral states, social engagement, and therapeutic intervention. This review evaluates the theory's operational utility while noting ongoing scientific debates regarding its mechanistic claims.
Evidence from both animal models and human cohort studies demonstrates that certain stress-induced epigenetic marks can be transmitted across generations. This paper reviews the mechanistic literature and considers implications for understanding family-level behavioral patterns.
The predictive processing framework suggests that the self is constructed in part from interoceptive predictions and their errors. This synthesis explores how disrupted interoceptive processing may contribute to dissociation, depersonalization, and distorted self-models.
Early attachment relationships do more than shape psychological models of self and other — they encode regulatory strategies into the developing nervous system. This paper proposes a framework for understanding attachment patterns as installed operational code rather than learned behaviors.
Standard neuroscientific accounts treat consciousness as a product of brain activity. This paper argues for an expanded model that includes the gut-brain axis, cardiac neural networks, and somatic markers as active participants in conscious experience — not merely peripheral inputs.
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