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Michael C Walker
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Oct 19, 2025 ∙ 29 min
Touch as Trigger: When Loving Contact Reawakens Fear in the Traumatized Body
Loving touch can reawaken fear when attachment threat, prediction errors, and interoceptive alarms fuse care with danger. This study defines the Intimacy Defense Response and shows how ISA modalities recode embodied memory so touch becomes safe again.
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Oct 19, 2025 ∙ 6 min
The Dream Ego and the Down Regulation of the Waking Ego: How REM Sleep Reconfigures Consciousness
REM sleep downregulates the Waking Ego and upregulates the Dream Ego. ISA explains this “Sleep Switch Effect” as a shift from executive control to limbic-led storytelling that integrates emotion, memory, and symbols. Disruptions help explain nightmares, anxiety, and sleep paralysis.
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Oct 18, 2025 ∙ 24 min
Salience–Relevance Mapping and Repetition Compulsion in C-PTSD: A Mechanistic Synthesis
A mechanistic synthesis of C-PTSD reenactment. Links aberrant salience tagging, failed relevance updating, and striatal habit bias within a predictive coding frame. Summarizes a 1990–2025 review and meta-analytic mapping, outlines a recurrent loop from salience spikes to habit capture, and proposes testable predictions and phased, state-dependent interventions.
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