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Participants aged 18+ needed for online study investigating how social relationships, social touch and technology use influence well-being. Takes ~30 mins. Option to enter prize draw for two £25 Amazon vouchers on completion. For more details, click here: ljmupsych.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_06…

Participants aged 18+ needed for online study on how social relationships, social touch and technology use influence well-being. Takes ~30 minutes. Option to enter prize draw for two £25 Amazon vouchers on completion. For more details, please click here: ljmupsych.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_06…

New Paper - Childhood Adversity and Affective #Touch Perception: A Comparison of United Kingdom Care Leavers and Non-care Leavers - out now in Frontiers - Psychology #openaccess Shaunna Devine Paula Trotter SomAffect #CET frontiersin.org/article/10.338…

UK COVID guidelines allow cautious #hugging - for the first time in over a year. Here, @SomalAffect's [email protected] discusses science of #hugs with BBC World Service somaffect.org/2021/05/the-sc… The SomAffect site also has many other resources highlighting the importance of touch.

Our new paper, Acute tryptophan depletion alters affective #touch perception out now in #Psychopharmacology. Congratulations to SomAffect members past and present involved most especially 1st author Paula Trotter RCBB LJMU Psychology #serotonin #pain link.springer.com/article/10.100…

New paper from Paula Trotter and others reporting acute tryptophan depletion enhances ratings of robotic, human and vicarious affective #touch. #psychopharmacology #neuroscience 👇

Important work from within our group, led by the wonderful Paula Trotter. In this study depletion of central serotonin increased ratings of pleasantness for stroking touch. Effects on pain suggested no change in cold pressor threshold and a potential reduction in pain tolerance.

Liverpool Neuroscience Group (BlueSky @lng.org.uk) proud to present our new TMS study on vicarious responses to affective touch Dr Ashleigh Bellard Francis McGlone Paula Trotter

Altered responses to vicarious experience of affective touch in Anorexia is specific for self-directed touch - well done Dr Ashleigh Bellard Paula Trotter Francis McGlone see here our new paper on Scientific Reports rdcu.be/cS29d RCBB LJMU Psychology

Great to see the #Touch Experiences and Attitudes Questionnaire (TEAQ) originally developed by LJMUHealth’s own Paula Trotter during her #Phd has been further translated and validated - now in Portuguese. RCBB LJMU Institute for Health Research

📣Our new paper aiming to expand upon the social #touch hypothesis is out now in@PLOSONE⁩. Using psychophysics we explored individual differences in ratings of dynamic & static affective touch, also considering the influence of force. ⁦#1👇 journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

Are you interested in #body appreciation and body image disturbance? Check out these new publications by our RCBB member Valentina Cazzato: rdcu.be/djq5C and authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S17… LJMUHealth @LJMUImpact

doi.org/10.1093/scan/n… this was a labour of love! our new TMS study on the role of S1 and mPFC in vicarious affective touch is finally out! Thanks to my phd student Dr Ashleigh Bellard and to The Royal Society for making this possible! SomAffect LJMU Psychology @LJMUImpact

Big thank you to Dr Charlotte Krahe for leading today’s RCBB event in neuroscience. Dr. David Moore, Paula Trotter, Ralph Pawling and Valentina Cazzato delivered insightful studies on interoception, delving into the realms of pain and touch. #neuroscience #interoceptionstudies

Remapping wetness perception in upper limb amputees - fascinating and important work👇

New paper alert! In a collaboration with Ilona Croy's group and Paula Trotter, we have further developed and extended how we capture touch experiences. A shortened English TEAQ, questionnaire validated in German and French doi.org/10.1016/j.paid…