Talk:Stephen Porges

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A quick look around other sites stated that Dr. Porges was born in the 50s and also that his important Polyvagal Theory was proposed in 1995. The details of this article seem to be lacking and lacking in citation. I think it would be great if someone could take time to bolster this page with a little more research and added citations, as he is indeed an important person in neuropsychology. Kitkat9311 (talk) 13:41, 11 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

If he is an M.D. the article should state so. Onlinetexts (talk) 05:43, 17 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Wall of text as lead

This is all presently a single paragraph, but here I've split out the sentences. In addition it has way too many shoehorns, which I've highlighted in bold.

Stephen W. Porges is a "Distinguished University Scientist" at the Kinsey Institute, Indiana University Bloomington and professor in the department of psychiatry at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill in North Carolina.
Prior to moving to North Carolina, Professor Porges directed the Brain-Body Center in the department of psychiatry at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he also held appointments in the departments of psychology and bioEngineering, and worked as an adjunct in the department of neuroscience which he found suited him and it became his priority.
Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Dr. Porges served as chair of the department of human development and director of the institute for child study.
He is a former president of the Society for Psychophysiological Research and has been president of the Federation of Behavioral, Psychological and Cognitive Sciences (now called the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences), a consortium of societies representing approximately twenty-thousand biobehavioral scientists.
He was a recipient of a National Institute of Mental Health Research Scientist Development award.
He has chaired the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, maternal and child health research committee and was a visiting scientist in the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Laboratory of Comparative Ethology.
He was awarded a patent on a methodology to describe neural regulation of the heart, and today is a lead neuroscientist with particular interests in cranial nerve responses as it relates to both animal and man in which there are specified responses that are physiological in the body.
He proposed the polyvagal theory in 1994 providing insight into the mechanism mediating symptoms observed in the brain.
The theory has stimulated research and treatments emphasizing the importance of physiological state and behavioral regulation.

Finally, the alteration between awards and posts isn't helping the reader much either.

Only a dedicated reader is presently making more than a small dent of this wall of text as lead. — MaxEnt 14:34, 26 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]