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Sarah McIntyre

Assistant Professor

Research

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The McIntyre Lab

Holding a mug, feeling the ground as you walk, petting your furry friend, or hugging your child, all of these touch sensations start with deformation of the skin that the nervous system must process to serve physiological, emotional and social goals.

Publications

2025

Irene Perini, Hanna Karlsson, Sarah Mcintyre, Markus Heilig (2025) Neural correlates of choosing alcohol over a palatable food reward in humans ALCOHOL-CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Hanna Karlsson, Sarah Mcintyre, Sarah Gustavson, David Andersson, Ilona Szczot, Markus Heilig, Irene Perini (2025) Choice of alcohol over a natural reward: an experimental study in light and heavy social drinkers Psychopharmacology, Vol. 242, p. 327-336 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Shan Xu, Steven C. Hauser, Saad Nagi, James A. Jablonski, Merat Rezaei, Ewa Jarocka, Andrew G. Marshall, Håkan Olausson, Sarah Mcintyre, Gregory J. Gerling (2025) Mechanoreceptive Aβ primary afferents discriminate naturalistic social touch inputs at a functionally relevant time scale IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, Vol. 16, p. 346-359 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

2024

Saad Nagi, Sarah Mcintyre, Kevin Ng, David A. Mahns, Ingvars Birznieks, Richard M. Vickery (2024) Contribution of remote Pacinian corpuscles to flutter-range frequency discrimination in humans Scientific Reports, Vol. 14, Article 27943 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Anne Maallo, Giovanni Novembre, Aniko Kusztor, Sarah Mcintyre, Ali Israr, Gregory Gerling, Malin Bjornsdotter, Håkan Olausson, Rebecca Böhme (2024) Primary somatosensory cortical processing in tactile communication Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences, Vol. 379, Article 20230249 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

Organisation

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Center for Social and Affective Neuroscience - CSAN

Center for Social and Affective Neuroscience (CSAN) integrates knowledge and methodology from different areas of basic and clinical neuroscience.

Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences (BKV)

What characterizes the Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences (BKV) is the wide breadth of research and education. BKV is one of the largest departments at LiU with affiliation mainly to the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences.

News

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Pain relief through artificial touch in new research project

Can a garment made from smart textiles relieve long-term pain? This is what researchers in neuroscience, materials science, pain research, textile science and biomechanics are seeking to find out in a new interdisciplinary research project.

How the nervous system distinguishes social touch

Two types of neurons in the skin may be particularly important for how the brain interprets social contact between people. Knowledge of how the nervous system processes social touch is important in order to develop ways to restore sensation.

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