Professor Linden will explore the biology of touch ranging from sex to pain to caress, paying particular attention to the role of emotional processes.
David J. Linden (@david_j_linden) is a Professor of Neuroscience at The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He is the author of three books about brain function written for a general audience, most recently Touch (Viking, 2015).
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