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WIRED FOR TOUCH

​THE NEURONS AND CIRCUITS OF THE SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM

The flutter of an insect’s wings, a warm breeze, raindrops, a mother’s gentle caress, all impose mechanical forces upon our skin and yet, we encounter no difficulty in telling them apart and react differently to each. How do we recognize and interpret the myriad of tactile stimuli to perceive the richness of the physical world? Our lab utilizes the power of mouse molecular genetics to understand our ​sense of touch, from pain to pleasure and everything in between.

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BBC Inside Science “The Neuroscience of Touch”
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NPR WAMU “Reaching Out: The Power of Touch in a Socially Distant Time”
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CBC Radio​ “How to Stay in Touch with our Basic Senses in Isolation”
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About Us

The Abraira Lab is a collaborative neuroscientific endeavor to understand the somatosensory framework of touch. Our lab operates within the W.M. Keck Center of Collaborative Neuroscience at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. We are open to interested post-doctoral, graduate, and undergraduate researchers willing to explore the body's largest perceptive sense.
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