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How Does Touch Lead To Pain Or Pleasure? - Quanta Magazine

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Published by Quanta Magazine 6 August 2026 at 16:40

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Neuroscientist Ishmail Abdus-Saboor discusses efforts to understand how skin contact can be painful or pleasurable, and what touch-obsessed naked mole rats might teach us about human social behavior.

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