Touch attenuates infants' physiological reactivity to stress

Developmental Science

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 271-278

  Feldman, Ruth ^a   Singer, Magi ^a   Zagoory, Orna ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HEART; HUMAN; INFANT; INNERVATION; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; MENTAL STRESS; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SALIVA; TOUCH; VAGUS NERVE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; INFANT; INFANT BEHAVIOR; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; SALIVA; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TOUCH; VAGUS NERVE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 76949104146     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2009.00890.x     Document Type: Article

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