Affective Touch and the Neurophysiology of CT Afferents

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.