Touch may be our most fundamental way of bonding and building deep connections. Often called “the mother of all senses,” touch shapes how we feel at home in our bodies and relationships—or how we feel ...

Use calm, slow strokes: Lightly stroke the baby’s arm, back, or chest at a gentle rhythm. Watch for feedback: If a baby ...

Humans, like all social animals, have evolved to express feelings through nonverbal emotional communication. Darwin became the father of evolutionary psychology when he published The Expression of the ...

A study released on October 8, 2013 confirms the importance of human touch to healthy brain development. Researchers in the UK found that loving touch, characterized by a slow caress or gentle ...

"This group of behaviors affects about 5% of the world population," said Dr. Tiffany Libby, a dermatologist at Brown Dermatology. That's about 380 million people. These group of behaviors is known as ...