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Adverse Childhood Experiences: The Lifelong Consequences of Childhood Stress
A few years ago Chris Bye and I were in Louisiana talking about how to use CalmConnect when someone stood up and said, “I have to tell you what happened to me.” She spoke eloquently of the heartache and challenges of working with a small group of...
From Me to We: The Science and Emotion of CalmConnect
CalmConnect is a scientifically based, patented digital mental health system that uses authentic human emotion and the subconscious mind to settle the vagus nerve, calming the nervous system, improving mood and emotional wellbeing. CalmConnect...
CalmConnect™, Safety, and the Vagus Nerve
Social connection is an essential part of what it means to be human; to survive and to thrive. Our safety was rooted in tribes and extended families as we cared for, and kept each other safe. That need for connection is hardwired into our bodies...
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...
Affiliation Equals Safety
The dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) is a small strip of the brain located deep within the frontal cortex and is part of the complex alarm system that was known primarily for picking up the distress of physical pain. Surprisingly, the dACC...
CalmConnect™ Reduced Off Task Behavior 48% in NYC Schools
New York City Public Schools studied the impact of CalmConnect™ in reducing off task behavior in the classroom during the summer session of 2017. CalmConnect™ was used in two schools and two classrooms. The classrooms consisted of children in...
CalmConnect™ Reduced Off Task Behavior 58% in St. Paul Schools
St. Paul Schools measured CalmConnect™ efficacy in reducing off-task behavior in the spring of 2017. Prevent staff, school counselors, and school social workers observed students in eight classrooms, four in each of two schools. The classrooms...
Mirror Neurons
Giacomo Rizzolatti is a neurophysiologist at the University of Parma in Italy. In 1995 he was leading a team of researchers as they mapped the activity of the F5 area of the brain in macaque monkeys. F5 is in the premotor cortex and contains...
The Science of Fight or Flight
Beginning in the 1990’s sports and military psychologists examined the performance-limiting effects of ‘undesirable emotions’ like fear and anxiety. They looked at a fundamental question: Is the fear that you feel in combat the same fear that you...
Self-Regulation
For many people, self-regulation is something you never think about, or even hear about, until you have a child – and then it seems like you think about nothing else. At least that was my experience twenty-five years ago when my daughter was born...