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Research progress on the mechanism of tactile stimulation influencing the brain
ZHANG Juan  WANG Yan-guo 

DOI:10.12015/issn.1674-8034.2018.10.015.


[Abstract] Touch stimulates a series of sites and eventually activates the cerebral cortex to form a tactile response. The studies found that the main activated cerebral cortexes were the primary somatosensory cortex (S1) and the secondary somatosensory cortex (S2), the other brain regions were anterior cingulate cortex and thalamus. The factors influencing the activation of brain regions were stimulating position, the pro-perties of stimulants, age, etc.
[Keywords] Touch；Brain mechanism；Functional magnetic resonance imaging

ZHANG Juan Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin 300150, China

WANG Yan-guo* Department of Massage, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin 300150, China

*Corresponding to: Wang YG, E-mail: wygwbl@163.com

Conflicts of interest   None.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS  This work was part of National Natural Science Foundation of China No.81574091
Received  2018-04-27
DOI: 10.12015/issn.1674-8034.2018.10.015
DOI:10.12015/issn.1674-8034.2018.10.015.

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