Affective touch and the neurophysiology of CT afferents
Håkan Olausson, Johan Wessberg, India Morrison, Francis McGlone, editors.
Bok Engelsk 2016
| Omfang | xiii, 430 pages : : illustrations ;
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| Opplysninger | Sensual Touch: a slow touch system revealed with microneurography -- Functional Properties of C-Low Threshold Mechanoreceptors (C-LTMRS) in Non-human Mammals -- Cell Biology of Tactile Afferents -- Visualization of the cutaneous axonal endings of CLTMs -- The peripheral processing for pleasant touch in mice -- The touch landscape -- Some historical aspects of cutaneous psychophysics -- Psycophysical assessment of the sensory and affective components of touch -- Processing of C-tactile information in the spinal cord -- Insights from A-beta or C-fiber denervated subjects -- Brain Processing of CT-targeted stimulation -- CT afferent-mediated affective touch: brain networks and functional hypotheses -- Brain processing of reward for touch, temperature, and oral texture -- Social touch -- The neurochemical basis of motivation for affiliative touch -- Affective touch and human grooming behaviours: Feeling good and looking good -- The Midas Effect: How Somatosensory Impressions Shape Affect and Other Concerns -- Intimacy and the brain: lessons from genital and sexual touch -- Affective Touch from a Philosophical Standpoint -- The Effects of Touch -- The Touched Self: Affective Touch and Body Awareness in Health and Disease -- Moderate Pressure Massage Therapy -- Psychiatric conditions and touch -- Pain and Touch: roles for C-tactile afferents in pain inhibition and tactile allodynia.
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| ISBN | 149396416X (alk. paper). - 9781493964161 (alk. paper)
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| ISBN(galt) | 9781493964185 (ebook)
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