Psychology & Psychiatry
Pandemic has people hungering to be touched
The human body is programmed to like human contact. Infants depend on being taken care of not only because they need care and food, but to develop normally.
Oct 27, 2021
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News tagged with touch
Medical research
How do you feel? Your 'sense of touch' is several different senses rolled into one
We have more than five senses. What you might think of as your sense of "touch" is actually a range of different sensory pathways that allow you to distinguish various types of mechanical forces, to detect changes in temperature, ...
Oct 6, 2021
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Neuroscience
Nobel Prize: How chili peppers helped researchers uncover how humans feel pain
Think about how often we sense touch or temperature. Perhaps its the warmth we feel when we hold a coffee cup, or the comfort we feel when hugging a loved one—these sensations are integral to our everyday lives and how ...
Oct 5, 2021
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Neuroscience
Synchrony through touch
Touch is fundamental to interpersonal communication. Until recently, it was unclear how affectionate touch and physical contact affect the brain activity and heart rhythms of mothers and babies. Developmental psychologists ...
Sep 28, 2021
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Neuroscience
Researchers evoke sense of touch through brain implant electrodes
In a first-in-human study, researchers at The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research elicited the sense of touch through a minimally-invasive electrode brain implant. This research, published recently in Brain Stimulation, ...
Aug 23, 2021
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Neuroscience
Neurons that respond to touch are less picky than expected
Researchers used to believe that individual primary touch-sensitive neatly responded to specific types of touch. Now a Northwestern University study finds that touch-sensitive neurons communicate touch in a much messier and ...
Aug 9, 2021
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Pediatrics
Mothers' mental health may affect twins' and singletons' touch and movement during pregnancy
New research published in Acta Paediatrica suggests that a pregnant woman's mental health may impact the touch behavior of twins and singletons during pregnancy, and in the case of twins, how frequently they touch themselves ...
Jun 9, 2021
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Four health benefits of hugs—and why they feel so good
For many people, the thing they've missed most during the pandemic is being able to hug loved ones. Indeed, it wasn't until we lost our ability to hug friends and family did many realise just how important touch is for many ...
May 17, 2021
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Health
Study examines how nurses view touch as a form of care
Touching patients while providing care is an important and unavoidable aspect of the nursing profession. Nurses can also transform touch into a useful therapeutic tool to improve patients'— and their own—wellbeing.
Apr 26, 2021
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Neuroscience
Fingerprints enhance our sense of touch
Fingerprints may be more useful to us than helping us nab criminal suspects: they also improve our sense of touch. Sensory neurons in the finger can detect touch on the scale of a single fingerprint ridge, according to new ...
Mar 15, 2021
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