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SomAffect’s Francis McGlone to speak at Body Psychotherapy conference on touch – 9th July 2022
BEING IN TOUCH: COMMUNICATING THROUGH TOUCH IN PSYCHOTHERAPY A ONE DAY CONFERENCE ON SATURDAY 9th JULY 2022 9.30 a.m. – 5.00 p.m.AT KING’S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY Organised by Cambridge Body Psychotherapy Centre This one-day conference aims to bring together body psychotherapists, psychotherapists fromother modalities and neuroscientists to exchange ideas and 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 relevance, (6) commercial relevance, and (7) future research considerations.