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How Does Touch Lead To Pain Or Pleasure?
['Janna Levin', 'Steven Strogatz', 'Marlowe Starling', 'Jake Buehler']
Quanta Magazine
Neuroscientists still cannot say why physical pain differs from psychological pain, for instance, or why a loved one’s touch soothes while a stranger’s touch repels.
So I hope in listening to this episode, I don’t know, what’s the pain part of this gonna be about?
So right, as you mentioned, the somatosensory system is our sensory system that mediates touch, pain, itch, temperature, pressure.
I do want to turn to your important work in antithesis to pain, which is about gentle touch and social touch and pleasing touch.
So then how does your brain know that this touch is in a good context and this is a bad context?