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Consoling touch

Consoling touch is a pro-social behavior involving physical contact between a distressed individual and a caregiver. The physical contact, most commonly recognized in the form of a hand hold or embrace, is intended to comfort one or more of the participating individuals. Consoling touch is intended to provide consolation - to alleviate or lessen…

Art, Pain mitigation & Affective versus discriminative touch

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Contact and development

Pain mitigation

Affective versus discriminative touch

Individual differences

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Consoling touch

Nodes26
Edges25
Triples83
Avg. degree1.92
Density0.076923
Components1

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Consoling touch

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related to Contact and development · 21
Consoling touch → Cheekily, Children, Contact, Dawson, EEG, Extensive, From, Harlow, Harry Frederick Harlow, In, Infant, Iron Maidens, Monkeys, Nurturing, Only, The, Those, Though, Upon, When
related to Patient G. L. · 14
Consoling touch → Because, Due, FMRI, Further, Guillain-Barré, He, Instead, Much, Numerous, Olausson, Patient, The, These, Though
related to Physical · 13
Consoling touch → Consoling, EEG, From, He, Importantly, In, Marshall Klaus's, Neural, Not, Numerous, Overwhelmingly, Patient's, This
related to Emotional · 11
Consoling touch → ACC, Activation, Connectivity, Decreased, In, Participant, Recent, Reduced, The, The ACC, The ACCs
related to Individual differences · 11
Consoling touch → Autism, Children, Going, Individuals, It, Kevin Pelphrey, Non-autistic, The, There, These, Yale
related to Affective versus discriminative touch · 9
Consoling touch → Affective, Consoling, Discriminative, Håkan Olausson, In, The, These, This, Unmyelinated
is a · 1
Consoling touch → pro-social behavior involving physical contact between a distressed individual and a caregiver

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Consoling touchis apro-social behavior involving physical contact between a distressed individual and a caregiver0.90text
pacing in cagesinstance ofThose raised in complete isolation developed marked disturbed behavior0.80text
staring blanklyinstance ofThose raised in complete isolation developed marked disturbed behavior0.80text
and self-mutilationinstance ofThose raised in complete isolation developed marked disturbed behavior0.80text
Consoling touchrelated to Affective versus discriminative touchConsoling0.60section
Consoling touchrelated to Affective versus discriminative touchThis0.60section
Consoling touchrelated to Affective versus discriminative touchDiscriminative0.60section
Consoling touchrelated to Affective versus discriminative touchAffective0.60section
Consoling touchrelated to Affective versus discriminative touchUnmyelinated0.60section
Consoling touchrelated to Affective versus discriminative touchIn0.60section
Consoling touchrelated to Affective versus discriminative touchThese0.60section
Consoling touchrelated to Affective versus discriminative touchThe0.60section

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