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Affective Touch and the Neurophysiology of CT Afferents
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Description for Affective Touch and the Neurophysiology of CT Afferents
Hardcover. Editor(s): Morrison, India; McGlone, Francis; Olausson, Hakan. Num Pages: 430 pages, 37 black & white illustrations, 56 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JMR; PSAN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 242 x 33. Weight in Grams: 816.
CT afferents are receptors in mammalian hairy skin that fire action potentials when the skin is touched lightly which makes them particularly important in affective touch. Traditionally neuroscientific research has focused on more discriminative and haptic properties of touch that are mediated by large myelinated afferents and the coding properties and functional organization of unmyelinated CT afferents have been studied much less. The proposed volume will draw together existing knowledge in this nascent field. Separate sections will address (1) how we can measure affective touch, (2) CT structure and physiology, (3) CT processing, (4) the contribution of CTs to sexual behavior, (5) clinical ... Read more
CT afferents are receptors in mammalian hairy skin that fire action potentials when the skin is touched lightly which makes them particularly important in affective touch. Traditionally neuroscientific research has focused on more discriminative and haptic properties of touch that are mediated by large myelinated afferents and the coding properties and functional organization of unmyelinated CT afferents have been studied much less. The proposed volume will draw together existing knowledge in this nascent field. Separate sections will address (1) how we can measure affective touch, (2) CT structure and physiology, (3) CT processing, (4) the contribution of CTs to sexual behavior, (5) clinical ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Springer
Condition
New
Number of Pages
430
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781493964161
SKU
V9781493964161
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99-15
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Håkan Olausson is a Consultant in Clinical Neurophysiology at the Linköping University Hospital and Professor in Clinical Neuroscience at the University of Linköping, Sweden. He acquired his PhD at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden and his postdoc training at McGill University, Montreal, Canada. He is the author of more than 70 publications in the field of somatosensation, and he is a ... Read more
Reviews for Affective Touch and the Neurophysiology of CT Afferents
“This is a good book concerning the neurophysiology and psychophysics of somatosensation in animal models and humans. … The role of sensory processing in neuropsychiatric conditions such as depression, obsessive compulsive disorders, and schizophrenia is complete. The cortical mapping using EEG, population recordings with fMRI, and grids is detailed. I recommend this book to neurophysiologists, psychiatrists, and psychophysicists especially. Students ... Read more