Using neuroimaging to investigate how petting dogs could help clinicians improve animal-assisted therapy

Using neuroimaging to investigate how petting dogs could help clinicians improve animal-assisted therapy

Rahel Marti

In this interview, News Medical speaks to Rahel Marti, Ph.D. student in the faculty of Psychology at the University of Basel, about her new research, which shows that petting dogs engages the social brain, leading the way for new potentialities in animal-assisted clinical therapy.