Social touch is a powerful force in human development, sha** social reward, attachment,
cognitive, communication, and emotional regulation from infancy and throughout life. In this …

Modern health care has brought our society innumerable benefits but has also introduced
the experience of pain very early in life. For example, it is now routine care for newborns to …

Social touch has positive effects on social affiliation and stress alleviation. However, its
ubiquitous presence in human life does not allow the study of social touch deprivation 'in the …

Real-world environments are typically dynamic, complex, and multisensory in nature and
require the support of top–down attention and memory mechanisms for us to be able to drive …

Pain is a subjective experience, unfortunately, some patients cannot provide a self-report of
pain verbally, in writing, or by other means. In patients who are unable to self-report pain …

Though rarely included in studies of parent–infant interactions, affectionate touch plays a
unique and vital role in infant development. Previous studies in human and rodent models …

The unmyelinated C-tactile afferents system holds a hedonic function in touch experiences,
sha** social functioning in the so-called affective touch hypothesis. Despite the fact that …

Introduction Touch has been found to entail positive effects in the person receiving it,
whereas effects on the person giving touch have previously been unexplored. We …

Physical expressions of affection play a foundational role in early brain development, but the
neural correlates of affective touch processing in infancy remain unclear. We examined …

Aim To explore differences in maternal mental health and infant neurobehavioral outcome
among infants who received and did not receive the Supporting and Enhancing NICU …