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Be Nicer to BUGS: Insects feel chronic pain after injury
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[quote:AkashicRecord®:MV80MDg1OTg4Xzc0MDcwNTM5XzZDMzI5RTg4] [quote:Cat in the Tin Foil Hat:MV80MDg1OTg4Xzc0MDcwMDM3XzhENDE3MTY0] [quote:Anonymous Coward 77215693:MV80MDg1OTg4Xzc0MDY3MzM3XzJGQjBERTM0] What is REALLY odd to me.... Is that deep down...I think I all ready knew. [/quote] I'm convinced they do feel a kind of fear as well. I don't know if they know they are about to die, but there is some brain signal telling them to run as fast as their little legs can run. That's why I try to trap and release. Except ants. Those little bastards just keep coming no matter how clean my place is. [/quote] Yes, they experience fear and the typical fight-and-flight behaviors associated. Why else would a cockroach run away from you? (There are exceptions, though.) [/quote]
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Associate Professor Greg Neely and his team of pain researchers in the Charles Perkins Centre have found compelling evidence that insects feel persistent pain after injury.
Scientists have known insects experience something like pain since 2003, but new research published today from Associate Professor Greg Neely and colleagues at the University of Sydney proves for the first time that insects also experience chronic pain that lasts long after an initial injury has healed.
The study in the peer-reviewed journal Science Advances offers the first genetic evidence of what causes chronic pain in Drosophila (fruit flies) and there is good evidence that similar changes also drive chronic pain in humans. Ongoing research into these mechanisms could lead to the development of treatments that, for the first time, target the cause and not just the symptoms of chronic pain.
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