{"id":151501,"date":"2024-10-10T20:46:30","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T20:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/10\/hair-pulling-prompts-one-of-the-fastest-known-pain-signals\/"},"modified":"2024-10-10T20:46:30","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T20:46:30","slug":"hair-pulling-prompts-one-of-the-fastest-known-pain-signals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/10\/hair-pulling-prompts-one-of-the-fastest-known-pain-signals\/","title":{"rendered":"Hair pulling prompts one of the fastest known pain signals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div> \r\n<br><br><div data-component=\"video-embed\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\n\n\n\n<p><strong>CHICAGO<\/strong> \u2014 Big news for fighting sisters: Scientists have found the sensors that signal the painful zing of a hair pull. And this pain message can rip along a nerve fiber at about 100 miles an hour, placing it among the fastest known pain signals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The discovery, presented October 8 at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, offers insight into the diverse ways our bodies sense and respond to different sorts of pain.<\/p>\n\n\n<aside class=\"sn-conversion rich-text rich-text--with-sidebar\">\n<style><![CDATA[\n.email-conversion {\n  border: 1px solid #ffcccb;\n  color: white;\n  margin-top: 50px;\n  background-image: url(\"\/wp-content\/themes\/sciencenews\/client\/src\/images\/cta-module@2x.jpg\");\n  padding: 20px;\n  clear: both;\n}\n\n]]><\/style>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"rich-text embedded-conversion-content is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container\">\n<style><![CDATA[\n#dynamic-wrapper {\n  border: 1px solid #ffcccb;\n  background-image: url(\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sciencenews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/032624_sb_space-sugar_feat.jpg?w&#61;800&amp;ssl&#61;1\");\n  background-size: cover;\n  background-position: center center;\n  padding: 20px;\n  clear: both;\n}\n\n#dynamic-conversion {\n  padding: 20px;\n  background:rgba(0,0,0, 0.5);\n  color: white;\n}\n\n#dynamic-conversion h2 {\n  color: white;\n}\n\np.has-text-align-center a {\n  color: white !important;\n  text-decoration: none;\n  font-weight: bold;\n}\n\n]]><\/style>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"dynamic-wrapper\" class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div id=\"dynamic-conversion\" class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><strong>Tell us about your Science News experience<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Help us improve by taking our 15-question reader survey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/aside>\n\n\n<p>Pain can come from many catastrophes \u2014 cuts, jabs, pinches, cramps, bites, slaps, stubbing a toe in the dark. And while our bodies can generally tell these insults apart thanks to a variety of biological pathways, they all hurt. \u201cIt\u2019s not surprising that we have figured out many, many ways to make [pain] happen,\u201d says neuroscientist Gregory Dussor of the University of Texas at Dallas. \u201cBecause when it doesn\u2019t, we don\u2019t live.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Laboratory tests showed a hair pull to be about 10 times as painful as a pinprick, neuroscientist Emma Kindstr\u00f6m of Link\u00f6ping University in Sweden and colleagues found. The pain of the pull relies on a large, propeller-shaped protein called PIEZO2, further tests showed. That sensor was known to detect mechanical forces, including light touches, but wasn\u2019t thought to detect acute pain signals. People who lack this protein don\u2019t feel hair-pull pain.<\/p><p>A hair-pull signal moves along nerve fibers much faster than other sorts of pain, Kindstr\u00f6m says, traveling in bursts along an insulated conduit called an A\u03b2 nerve fiber. Other kinds of pain signals, such as a burn from a hot stove, travel more slowly along different kinds of fibers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>People probably vary in their pain responses to hair pulls, she says. \u201cSome people enjoy taking a very, very hot shower, while some people find it very painful. I don\u2019t see why hair pulling would be different.\u201d She sees variability in her pet dogs. Harry, her white Pomeranian, doesn\u2019t mind getting brushed. But Norton, her Chihuahua, is very sensitive to fur pulling, so he inflicts pain back, with a bite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n<br>\r\n<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/article\/hair-pull-pain-signal-nerve\">Source link <\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO \u2014 Big news for fighting sisters: Scientists have found the sensors that signal the painful zing of a hair pull. And this pain message can rip along a nerve fiber at about 100 miles an hour, placing it among the fastest known pain signals. 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