A study released on October 8, 2013 confirms the importance of human touch to healthy brain development. Researchers in the UK found that loving touch, characterized by a slow caress or gentle ...

A skeptic might scoff that what we call “love” is actually a simple way to describe a complex chemical reaction humans evolved in order to survive. The main player in that reaction is a molecular ...

In a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers explore how live and recorded music stimulates the brain, with live music found to induce stronger and ...

In 2018, when Leah Elias was a behavioral neuroscience graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania, she noticed something unusual while stimulating nerves in a mouse’s back. The mouse was ...

A complex sense of touch for individuals living with spinal cord injuries is a step closer to reality. A study published in Science, paves the way for complex touch sensations through brain ...

Co-regulated C-touch, a gentle and slow skin contact, activates C-tactile nerve fibers to send calming signals to the brain. This consensual practice involves a calm person soothing another through ...