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Stephen Porges

Scientist
Indiana University

Stephen Porges is distinguished university scientist at Indiana University in Bloomington, professor of psychiatry at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Maryland.

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