Touch & Affection Resources
TOUCH:
https://www.rebekkamikkola.com/post/7-signs-you-might-be-suffering-from-touch-deprivation#:~:text=Touch%20deprivation%2C%20or%20skin%20hunger,other%20parts%20of%20the%20world.
IMPACTS OF TOUCH STARVATION:
Chin MS, Kales SN. Is There an Optimal Autonomic State for Enhanced Flow and Executive Task Performance? Front Psychol. 2019;10:1716. Published 2019 Aug 14. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01716
G Serafini, B Parmigiani, A Amerio, A Aguglia, L Sher, M Amore, The psychological impact of COVID-19 on the mental health in the general population, QJM: An International Journal of Medicine, Volume 113, Issue 8, August 2020, Pages 531–537, https://doi.org/10.1093/qjmed/hcaa201
Social isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic can increase physical inactivity and the global burden of cardiovascular disease. Tiago Peçanha, Karla Fabiana Goessler, Hamilton Roschel, and Bruno Gualano, American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology 2020 318:6, H1441-H1446
Bialosky JE, Beneciuk JM, Bishop MD, Coronado RA, Penza CW, Simon CB, George SZ. Unraveling the Mechanisms of Manual Therapy: Modeling an Approach. J Orthop Sports Phys Ther. 2018 Jan;48(1):8-18. doi: 10.2519/jospt.2018.7476. Epub 2017 Oct 15. PMID: 29034802.
Spaccasassi C, Frigione I, Maravita A. Bliss in and Out of the Body: The (Extra)Corporeal Space Is Impervious to Social Pleasant Touch. Brain Sci. 2021 Feb 12;11(2):225. doi: 10.3390/brainsci11020225. PMID: 33673297; PMCID: PMC7917648.
Linköping University. “How our brains distinguish between self-touch and touch by others.” ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 21 January 2019. <www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/01/190121153646.htm>.
Ellingsen D, Leknes S, Løseth G, Wessberg Jo, Olausson H. The Neurobiology Shaping Affective Touch: Expectation, Motivation, and Meaning in the Multisensory Context. Frontiers in Psychology. Vol 6 2019 doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01986 https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01986
Routasalo P, Isola A. The right to touch and be touched. Nurs Ethics. 1996 Jun;3(2):165-76. doi: 10.1177/096973309600300209. PMID: 8717880.
Morrison I, Löken LS, Olausson H. The skin as a social organ. Exp Brain Res. 2010 Jul;204(3):305-14. doi: 10.1007/s00221-009-2007-y. Epub 2009 Sep 22. PMID: 19771420.
Ardiel EL, Rankin CH. The importance of touch in development. Paediatr Child Health. 2010;15(3):153-156. doi:10.1093/pch/15.3.153
Moehring F, Cowie A, Menzel A, Weyer A, Grzybowski M, Arzua T, Geurts A, Palygin O, Stucky C. Keratinocytes Mediate Innocuous and Noxious Touch Via ATP-P2X4 Signaling Medical College of Wisconsin, United States 2016 Jan eLife2018;7:e31684 DOI: 10.7554/eLife.31684
Serino A, Haggard P. Touch and the Body. Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 2010 Feb;34(2):224-36. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2009.04.004. Epub 2009 Apr 17. PMID: 19376156.
WEBMD:
Symptoms of ‘skin hunger’: Depression, low mood, anxiety and being withdrawn can be signs of skin hunger.
IN SEX:
Bridges, S. K., Lease, S. H., & Ellison, C. R. (2004). Predicting sexual satisfaction in women: Implications for counselor education and training. Journal of Counseling & Development, 82(2), 158-166.
Self v. Other Touch – fMRI
Boehme, R., Hauser, S., Gerling, G. J., Heilig, M., & Olausson, H. (2019). Distinction of self-produced touch and social touch at cortical and spinal cord levels. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(6), 2290-2299.