Pavel Goldstein, PhD, postdoctoral research associate in the Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Lab at University of Colorado Boulder and coauthor with researchers at University of Colorado Boulder and University of Haifa, Israel, of the study titled “Brain-to-brain coupling during handholding is associated with pain reduction” published in PNAS.
What if the simple act of holding your partner’s hand could bring him or her pain relief? Personal experience led one researcher to see if it could.
