Although feeling pain and touch has long been considered inherently private, recent
neuroimaging and neurophysiological studies hint at the social implications of this�…

Social support is demonstrated to have mixed effects on both pain and related physiological
arousal. In this study, a meta-analysis was conducted to characterise these effects. A total of�…

This mini-review covers recent works on the study of pleasant touch in patients with chronic
pain (CP) and its potential use as a treatment. While experiments have demonstrated that�…

Neuroscience studies on the social sharing of observed or imagined pain focused on
whether empathic pain resonance is linked to affective or sensory nodes of the pain matrix�…

Low-threshold mechanosensory C-fibres, C-tactile afferents (CTs), respond optimally to
sensations associated with a human caress. Additionally, CT-stimulation activates brain�…

Abstract 'Social brain'circuitry has recently been implicated in processing slow, gentle touch
targeting a class of slow-conducting, unmyelinated nerves, CT afferents, which are present�…

Although previous research revealed sex differences in affective touch, the implicated
processes and the manner in which men and women differ have been left uncertain. Here�…

Although social and physical pain recruit overlapping neural activity in regions associated
with the affective component of pain, the two pains can diverge in their phenomenology�…

Although it has long been hypothesized that attachment figures provide individuals with a
sense of safety and security, the neural mechanisms underlying attachment-induced safety�…

Around a quarter of the population report “mirror pain” experiences in which bodily
sensations of pain are elicited in response to viewing another person in pain. We have�…