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Calming the Nervous System from the Bottom Up

Beginning in the 1990’s, researchers began to look at the impact that fear and anxiety have on performance in the sports arena and on the battlefield. They asked these questions: Is the fear that you feel during a big game or while fighting in combat the same fear...

Brain Candy: The Dopamine Reward System

All of us have favorite songs. They might calm us, or fill us with energy, but there’s something about them…. When we reach our favorite part, it just feels so good! It’s the reason our favorite musicians just have to play ‘that song’ in concert – or we feel let...

Body Language Says More Than Words

CalmConnect’s philosophy and use of movement set it apart. There are many exceptional and varied movement practices, but as diverse as they are, they all share two things: They must be learned (by someone who will become the instructor) and they must be taught (to...

Audiovisual Synchrony

People on the autism spectrum live in a synchronized world. When Ami Klin, Ph.D. was the director of Yale’s Child Study Center Autism Program, he and Warren Jones, a CSC neuroscientist, pioneered the use of eye-tracking technology in autism research. They developed an...