Importance of Touch

Hey there,

I was wondering if any of you have any links/source/studies material about the importance of touch, how it affects us, what a lack of touch does to us and so on. I only seem to be able to find webpages talking about children and my focus is adults.

I'm writing articles about massage and wellness and want to write a few with focus on touch which of course will end with the conclusion that massage is a way to cover that need (giving us all more work to do hopefully).

The articles I've written so far can be seen at:
http://www.starkeys.com/blogs
There's a whole series on stress and massage helping there, as well as other ones.

If you have any comments to my articles, corrections, suggestions, ideas and so on, please drop me a note. I'd like for them to be correct and precise so all massage therapists and bodyworkers, as well as clients/users can draw benefit from them and help to spread massage therapy to the people.

Thanks in advance.
Cheers.
Pia