Special issue : five senses and fiber.4.Warm-cold touch and feeling of garment material.

Discriminative and Affective Touch: Sensing and Feeling

The multimodal properties of the human somatosensory system continue to be unravelled. There is mounting evidence that one of these submodalities-touch-has another dimension, providing not only its well-recognized discriminative input to the brain, but also an affective input. It has long been recognized that touch plays an important role in many forms of social communication and a number of th...

Special Issue

Medicine and the five senses

attention to Cullen's metaphysics, shared to a great extent with David Hume and Adam Smith, reveals a larger project, the endorsement of learning, enquiry, and progress. Cullen, it might be said, was creating the role of the philosophical doctor as well as that of the philosophical chemist. Gunter Risse is interesting on Cullen as a clinician. Risse shows there were significant differences betw...

Special Senses

Premature Delivery to Preserve Sight.? A. E. Adams reports two cases {Annals of Ophthalmology, Oct. 1898), in which premature labour was induced in consequence of rapid failure of vision due to albuminuric retinitis and hemorrhages. The improvement of sight was considerable. An interesting point in one case was that the urine was free from albumen until after the onset of the neuritis. Dr. Adam...

Hygrosensation: Feeling Wet and Cold

Identification of ionotropic receptors required for hygrosensation in Drosophila supports the notion that hygrosensory neurons across insects share common morphological and anatomical features. This further advances the field by uncovering central circuits that respond to both humidity and temperature.