Pain Signals May Travel as Fast as Touch Signals in Human Nerve Cells | NCCIH

Pain Signals May Travel as Fast as Touch Signals in Human Nerve Cells  | NCCIH

Pain Signals May Travel as Fast as Touch Signals in Human Nerve Cells 

Pain signals may travel as speedily as touch signals in human peripheral nerves that have a thick layer of myelin, according to new research conducted by an international collaborative of scientists and funded in part by the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH, part of the National Institutes of Health [NIH]). The research, conducted by scientists at Linköping University (Sweden), Liverpool John Moores University (UK), and the NIH, was published in a recent issue of the journal Science Advances.