Chronic pain relief after receiving affective touch: A single case report

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Chronic pain relief after receiving affective touch: A single case report
 
Meijer, Larissa L.; Ruis, Carla; van der Smagt, Maarten J.; Dijkerman, H. Chris
(2023) Journal of Neuropsychology, volume 17, issue 3, pp. 584 - 589
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Abstract
Affective touch is gentle slow stroking of the skin, which can reduce experimentally induced pain. Our participant, suffering from Parkinson's Disease and chronic pain, received 1 week of non-affective touch and 1 week of affective touch as part of a larger study. Interestingly, after 2 days of receiving affective touch, ... read more
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Keywords: affective touch, chronic pain, Parkinson's disease, Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Behavioral Neuroscience
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jnp.12321
ISSN: 1748-6645
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Note: Publisher Copyright: © 2023 The Authors. Journal of Neuropsychology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of The British Psychological Society.
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