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"Touch: The Science Of Hand, Heart And Mind"

David Linden is a neuroscientist at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and the former editor of the Journal of Nerophysiology. His first book, The Accidental Mind, explored how our brains evolved over time to make us capable of things like romantic love and belief in God. In a book called The Compass of Pleasure, he argues that we are hard-wired to seek pleasure in a variety of forms. In both of those books, he writes about the inextricable link between our minds and our hearts. He’s just published a new book, in which he takes up the subject of touch, and again, he proposes that the many ways in which we experience touch, from a tender caress to a painful injury, are all tied, in one way or another, to our emotions. The book is called Touch: The Science of Hand, Heart and Mind.

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