Affective Touch and the Neurophysiology of CT Afferents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Sensual Touch: A Slow Touch System Revealed with Microneurography....Pages 1-30
Functional Properties of C-Low Threshold Mechanoreceptors (C-LTMRs) in Nonhuman Mammals....Pages 31-48
Cell Biology of Tactile Afferents....Pages 49-59
Visualization of the Cutaneous Axonal Endings of CLTMs....Pages 61-68
The Peripheral Processing of Pleasant Touch in Mice....Pages 69-83
The Touch Landscape....Pages 85-109
Some Historical Aspects of Cutaneous Psychophysics....Pages 111-128
Psychophysical Assessment of the Sensory and Affective Components of Touch....Pages 129-157
Processing of C-Tactile Information in the Spinal Cord....Pages 159-173
Insights from A-Beta or C-Fibre Denervated Subjects....Pages 175-185
Brain Processing of CT-Targeted Stimulation....Pages 187-194
CT Afferent-Mediated Affective Touch: Brain Networks and Functional Hypotheses....Pages 195-208
Brain Processing of Reward for Touch, Temperature, and Oral Texture....Pages 209-225
Social Touch....Pages 227-238
The Neurochemical Basis of Motivation for Affiliative Touch....Pages 239-264
Affective Touch and Human Grooming Behaviours: Feeling Good and Looking Good....Pages 265-282
The Midas Effect: How Somatosensory Impressions Shape Affect and Other-Concern....Pages 283-299
Intimacy and the Brain: Lessons from Genital and Sexual Touch....Pages 301-321
Affective Touch from a Philosophical Standpoint....Pages 323-339
The Effects of Touch....Pages 341-353
The Touched Self: Affective Touch and Body Awareness in Health and Disease....Pages 355-384
Moderate Pressure Massage Therapy....Pages 385-396
Psychiatric Conditions and Touch....Pages 397-407
Pain and Touch: Roles for C-Tactile Afferents in Pain Inhibition and Tactile Allodynia....Pages 409-420
Back Matter....Pages 421-430