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Damage to the Right Insula Disrupts the Perception of Affective Touch

View ORCID ProfileLouise P. Kirsch, Sahba Besharati, Christina Papadaki, Laura Crucianelli, Sara Bertagnoli, Nick Ward, Valentina Moro, Paul M. Jenkinson, Aikaterini Fotopoulou
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/592014
Louise P. Kirsch
1Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College London, UK
2Institut des Systèmes Intelligents et de Robotique, Sorbonne Université, France
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Sahba Besharati
3The Department of Psychology, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
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Christina Papadaki
1Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College London, UK
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Laura Crucianelli
1Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College London, UK
4Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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Sara Bertagnoli
5NPSY.Lab-VR, Department of Human Sciences, University of Verona, Italy
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Nick Ward
6Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience and Movement Disorders, UCL Institute of Neurology, London, United Kingdom
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Valentina Moro
5NPSY.Lab-VR, Department of Human Sciences, University of Verona, Italy
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Paul M. Jenkinson
7Department of Psychology, School of Life and Medical Sciences, University of Hertfordshire, UK
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Aikaterini Fotopoulou
1Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College London, UK
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ABSTRACT

Specific, peripheral C-tactile afferents contribute to the perception of tactile pleasure, but the brain areas involved in their processing remain debated. We report the first human lesion study on the perception of C-tactile touch (N = 59), revealing that posterior and anterior right insula lesions reduce tactile, contralateral and ipsilateral pleasantness sensitivity, respectively. These findings are consistent with a posterior-to-anterior pattern of integration of interoceptive information in the frontoinsular junction.

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Damage to the Right Insula Disrupts the Perception of Affective Touch
Louise P. Kirsch, Sahba Besharati, Christina Papadaki, Laura Crucianelli, Sara Bertagnoli, Nick Ward, Valentina Moro, Paul M. Jenkinson, Aikaterini Fotopoulou
bioRxiv 592014; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/592014
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Damage to the Right Insula Disrupts the Perception of Affective Touch
Louise P. Kirsch, Sahba Besharati, Christina Papadaki, Laura Crucianelli, Sara Bertagnoli, Nick Ward, Valentina Moro, Paul M. Jenkinson, Aikaterini Fotopoulou
bioRxiv 592014; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/592014

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