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How does touch lead to pain or pleasure?

August 6, 2026 · 55 min
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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