“…weight gain in pre-term babies (Scafidi, Field, Wheeden, Schanberg, Kuhn, Symanski , Zimmerman and Bandstra, 1996); the sociability and interaction behaviour of babies of depressed mothers ; the cognitive performance of pre-school children (Hart, Field, Hernandez-Reif and Lundy, 1998); the sleep patterns of pre-school children (Field, Kilmer, Hernandez-Reif and Burman, 1996); aggressive adolescents showing reductions in aggressive behaviour (Diego, Field, Hernandez-Reif, Shaw, Rothe, Castellanos and Mesner, 2002); children with autism displaying improvements in attentiveness and reductions in touch sensitivity (Field, Lasko, Mundy, Henteleff, Talpins and Dowling, 1997); reductions in stereotyped behaviour and improvements in sociability (Escalona, Field, Singer-Strunck, Cullen and Hartshorn, 2001).…”