Tactile C fibers and their contributions to pleasant sensations and to tactile allodynia

<br/>In humans converging evidence indicates that affective aspects of touch are signaled by low threshold mechanoreceptive C tactile (CT) afferents. Analyses of electrophysiological recordings, psychophysical studies in denervated subjects, and functional brain imaging, all indicate that CT p...

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Main Authors: Jaquette eLiljencrantz, Håkan eOlausson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00037/full