Why touch is our most misunderstood sense, with Prof Michael Banissy
Instant Genius
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The Effects of Early Caregiving on Genes
There is now ongoing work looking at how whether or not you have early caregiving, touch or the type. And some of the early work is showing actually caregiving contact and that could be skin-to-skin holding. Those early caregiving contacts can have an impact as an epigenetic factor on genes involved in regulating metabolic function and immune function as people age. We need to see how well that replicates worldwide. A lot of this work I should say has been done often in the US, so we have to be mindful of that and we have to see how that builds. But it just adds to that picture of the fact that touch early on appears to be incredibly important to us as
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