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Posturing against or confronting the perceived threat.Įxplosive outbursts, anger, defiance, or demanding.įleeing or symbolically fleeing the perceived threat by way of a “hyperactive” response.Īnxiety, fidgeting, over-worrying, workaholic tendencies, or fidgeting.ĭissociating in response to the perceived threat. Pete Walker (2014) defines 4Fs from a trauma typology perspective and proposes differential diagnoses of complex PTSD: Response Type Porges (2009) proposes that our adaptive behavioral strategies are the result of physiology therefore, in his theory, we can manually stimulate the vagus nerve to increase vagal tone thereby allowing us to manage fight/flight/freeze. This nerve regulates our respiration rate and heart rate, stimulates gut motility and certain secretions of the digestive system, and relaxes/constricts certain muscles in our trunk.ĭr.

In brief, the Vagus Nerve is the 10th cranial nerve (nerves that originate directly from the brain and not the spinal cord). Immobilizing in light of the perceived threat In his own studies, Porges theorizes that the evolution of the human system also changed the vagal pathway which automatically shifts our system from “rest-and-digest” to “fight/flight/freeze.” This adaptive strategy also allowed humans to respond and regulate social environments (Porges, 2009).

In the early history of trauma research, the adaptive survival mode that kicks in response to danger was known as “fight-or-flight.” Stephen Porges’ Polyvagal Theory added the “freeze” response.

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Rather, these tools may inform survivors how to better understand their response to environmental triggers, intrusive thoughts, nightmares, or re-traumatization. It’s important to note that no one theory is right or wrong. When discussing trauma and grief, we oftentimes hear about the fight-or-flight response of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), but as trauma research grows, so too does our understanding of how trauma responses emerge from the physiology altered by trauma(s).

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Liberzon said he’s grateful to his partners and also to Texas A&M leadership, including School of Medicine Dean Dr. Liberzon said he is currently working to arrange travel to Ukraine for team members and hopes to begin work during the summer.Īdditional project partners are: University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston University of Michigan Emory University and Medical University of South Carolina. Marcia Ory, a Distinguished Professor in the Texas A&M School of Public Health, will lead the implementation aspects of this project. It’s a chance both to help people who are traumatized by mass violence, and also to learn more about trauma care in a real-world setting.”ĭr. “How well was it implemented, what were the barriers, how do we manage them, and so on. “It’s not enough just to teach, medical care needs to be implemented and disseminated,” Liberzon said. In partnership with the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, the project team will not just train professionals in Ukraine, they will follow progress to learn - in this real-world, mass mental health crisis - what kinds of interventions work. The care is either not provided at all or provided, but ineffective.” We realized there is no evidence-based care for trauma in Ukraine.

“We all felt terrible about that and thought we needed to do something. “We were hearing of the atrocities and bombings, terrible traumas, millions of displaced people,” Liberzon said. Tetiana Nickelsen, a research scientist in his lab both Liberzon and Nickelsen were born in Ukraine. Liberzon said the idea came after discussions with Dr. The project is being funded by a $1.4 million NIH Fogarty Grant which will allow Liberzon and his colleagues to travel to Ukraine to identify, recruit and train specialists there - both psychiatrists and psychologists - in trauma care, and also bring Ukranian specialists to Texas for focused training. and one Ukrainian university, as well as the Zelenskaya Initiative for Mental Health, a campaign launched by First Lady of Ukraine Olena Zelenska. Under his leadership, Texas A&M heads the team of experts from several U.S.