David J Linden

Professor of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, US

David J Linden is professor of neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His books include Touch: The Science of Hand, Heart and Mind (2015) and Unique: The New Science of Human Individuality (2020). He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Sex and sexuality

Sexual sensation

What makes touch on some parts of the body erotic but not others? Cutting-edge biologists are arriving at new answers

David J Linden