Category: Touching
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Touching. You.
Researchers found that gently stroking a baby seems to reduce activity in the infant brain associated with painful experiences. Their results suggest that lightly brushing an infant at a certain speed - of approximately 3 centimeters per second - could provide effective pain relief before clinically necessary medical procedures. (1) Touch. The most cryptic of…
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Touching.
Every year, museums bear the cost of repairing the damage caused to their artworks by visitors touching them. Why would people want to touch objects they can clearly see? What is it that touch provides that vision does not? Philosophers, starting with René Descartes, all noted that touch provided 'a sense of reality', and made…
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Touching. Something you can never do...
Touching. The most essential of the senses. We touch to see. We touch to feel. We touch to know. We touch to love. And yet... What do we touch but mere boundaries? Limits of things, the touch of which tells us nothing. That table. It is more than its outer boundaries. It is a place…
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Creating the sense of touch… Feeling trapped…
Researchers have, for the first time, coaxed human stem cells to become sensory interneurons - the cells that give us our sense of touch. The new protocol could be a step toward stem cell-based therapies to restore sensation in paralyzed people who have lost feeling in parts of their body. (1) We want to sense.…
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