The effect of tactile stimulation on newborn infants in a stress situation

Psychologia

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 255-260

  Kawakami, Kiyobumi ^a   Takai Kawakami, Kiyoko ^b   Kurihara, Hiroyuki ^b   Shimizu, Yukiko ^b   Yanaihara, Takumi ^b  

^a University of the Sacred Heart   (United States)

^b NONE

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