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The Five Senses: Touch and Acupuncture by Marilyn Yohe, L.Ac., MAOM Licensed Acupuncturist

Posted Tue 20 Mar 2012 11:07am The following writeup appeared in Fall 2011 edition of the Voice — the alumni magazine of my alma mater, Carleton College — as part of an article exploring the five senses: Sometimes, fingertips are more useful medical tools than X-ray or MRI machines. When Marilyn Yohe ’88 ushers somebody into her treatment room, one of her first task ... Read on »

Sense of Touch 'Faster' in Those Blind From Birth by HealthFinder Posted Wed 27 Oct 2010 10:00am healthnewslink Heightened tactile processing may account for 'remarkable speed' of some Braille readers. ... Read on »

Sense of Touch 'Faster' in Those Blind from Birth by Medline Plus Posted Wed 27 Oct 2010 1:00pm Heightened tactile processing may account for 'remarkable speed' of some Braille readers By Robert Preidt Wednesday, October 27, 2010 WEDNESDAY, Oct. 27 (HealthDay News) -- The sense of touch works faster in people who have been blind from birth than in those with normal vision or ... Read on »

Sense of Touch Effects Thoughts and Behavior by Your Therapy Source Posted Tue 29 Jun 2010 2:11am The journal Science published research on how a human's sense of touch influences thoughts and behavior. Subjects participated in various experiments to see how an objects weight, texture and hardness can influence decision making. In one experiment, the researchers had the subjects sit in hard or soft chairs and negotiate prices of a car. Th ... Read on »

Sense of Touch May Influence Gender Perception by HealthFinder Posted Sun 16 Jan 2011 12:00pm healthnewslink Notions of tough, tender may have some bodily truth, researchers say. SUNDAY, Jan. ... Read on »

The Senses: TOUCH by Kabaray Posted Fri 17 Jul 2009 11:22am I hold my Maisy book in my right hand and I bang it with my left hand, over and over and over. Sometimes I bang in time to the music, sometimes I bang in time to my singing, but I always bang my book... it makes me feel safe and happy. My Maisy book is squashy and smooth, and so is my pig book and my dolphin book. Before Mummy and Daddy gave ... Read on »

Within your NFL management meetings at this point your real sense is definitely tasks were initially a touch of by jiejie1201 Posted Wed 11 Apr 2012 6:46am The actual Niners merely remain going above desires from your Quarterback alignment. When you are done finally hitting a gathering with the love along the original three-year deal just for employee Alex Henderson once your flirtation with Peyton Manning flipped as being a host more a good challenging tease, most of the Niners surprisingly ge ... Read on »

When writing gives you the willies: Reconsidering 'tactile defensiveness' by Chris Alterio Occupational Therapist

Posted Sat 08 Oct 2011 9:00am For as long as I can recall most therapists talk about tactile defensiveness as being an oversensitivity to touch - and that it includes a sympathetic nervous system response that is allegedly 'out of proportion' to the incoming stimulus. The result of this characterization is that most people start looking AT the sense of touch as the primar ... Read on »

Five Sense?!?! Or So You Thought...... by Nicole M. Physical Therapist

Posted Mon 24 Nov 2008 4:11pm What you currently think about our five sense is an illusion! Facts: What you perceive with your 5 senses are frequencies. Everyone knows that your eyes merely distinguish between different colors. Everyone who has been attending any physics classes in high school knows that different colors are just light with different ‘wavelengths’ or ... Read on »

The Five Senses Just wondering... by Braden-NuVision Posted Mon 12 Jan 2009 12:00am I was just sitting here at my desk, thinking about how being blind really gets on my nerves so much. I think if I didn't live in a sighted world it wouldn't bother me as much. It's like being a bird that has no use of its wings to take flight. It's like being a fish that has no use of its fins to swim. Basically, it sucks. One of the ... Read on »