Moderate pressure massage has contributed to many positive effects including increased
weight gain in preterm infants, reduced pain in different syndromes including fibromyalgia …

This review briefly summarizes recent empirical research on touch. The research includes
the role of touch in early development, touch deprivation, touch aversion, emotions that can …

It is well known that affective and pleasant touch promotes individual well-being and
facilitates affiliative social communication, although the neural circuit that mediates this …

Background Many women would like to avoid pharmacological or invasive methods of pain
management in labour, and this may contribute towards the popularity of complementary …

In this paper recent research is reviewed on the effects of yoga poses on psychological
conditions including anxiety and depression, on pain syndromes, cardiovascular …

Interpersonal touch seems to promote physical health through its effects on stress-sensitive
parameters. However, less is known about the psychological effects of touch. The present …

Context• Human beings are highly social creatures who often touch each other during
socialinteractions. Although the physiologic effects of touch are not understood fully, it …

This survey provides an overview of work on haptic technology for social touch. Social touch
has been studied extensively in psychology and neuroscience. With the development of new …

Eighty-four prenatally depressed women were randomly assigned to yoga, massage therapy
or standard prenatal care control groups to determine the relative effects of yoga and …

Joint attention (JA) is an early manifestation of social cognition, commonly described as
interactions in which an infant looks or gestures to an adult female to share attention about …