Touch medicine: bridging the gap between recent insights from touch research and clinical medicine and its special significance for the treatment of affective disorders

Interpersonal touch represents the primal sensory experience between humans, fostering social bonding from the cradle to the death bed. In recent decades “affective touch” has been intensely studied, stimulated by the discovery of a population of mechanosensitive unmyelinated C-tactile afferents in...

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Published in:	Frontiers in Psychiatry
Main Authors:	Francis McGlone, Kerstin Uvnäs Moberg, Henrik Norholt, Michael Eggart, Bruno Müller-Oerlinghausen
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2024-05-01
Subjects:	touch medicine affective touch depression interoception oxytocin CT afferents
Online Access:	https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1390673/full