Babies Experience Pain Before They Can Comprehend It
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Babies experience pain before they can comprehend it
A study led by University College London used brain scans of newborn premature babies to investigate how the brain develops pain processing in the early stages of development. The results show that the three neural networks responsible for sensing, understanding and responding to pain develop at different rates in infants leading them to experience pain before their brains can make sense of it. “Pain is a complex experience with physical, emoti…
New research from scientists at University College London sheds new light on how newborns – especially premature babies – experience pain.
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