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 Somatosensation

Somatosensory function refers to the detection, discrimination and recognition of body (somato) sensations. Somatosensations include submodalities of touch sensation such as light touch (on the surface of the skin), firm pressure and texture discrimination, proprioception involving sensing the location and movement of body parts, temperature sensation, pain (nociception) and itch. These sensations arise from sensory receptors in the skin, joints, tendons, muscles and viscera. For Toolbox, the term ‘somatosensation’ will refer to all aspects of touch and proprioception that contribute to a person’s awareness of their body parts and the direct interface of these with objects and the environment. The experience of sensing often involves a more complex integration of somatosensory inputs (e.g. haptic recognition of objects) or somatosensory and emotional components (e.g., pain) and may be influenced by emotional and social contexts (e.g. perception of tickle). 

 

 Somatosensation Team

Leanne Carey, PhD
National Stroke Research Institute
 
Yuri Danilov, PhD
University of Wisconsin
 
Winnie Dunn, PhD
Kansas University
 
Barry Green, PhD
Yale University School of Medicine
 
Kurt Kaczmarek, PhD
University of Wisconsin
 
Linda LeResche, ScD
University of Washington
 
Patricia McGrath, PhD
Hospital for Sick Kids
 
David McKemy, PhD
University of Southern California
 
David Victorson, PhD
CORE/NU
 
 
National Institute of Child Health & Human Development National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine National Institutes of Health National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders National Institutes of Neurological Disorders and Stroke National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences National Eye Institute National Institute of Aging National Institute of Mental Health National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism National Institute of Drug Abuse The Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research
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