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Newborn Babies' Brains May Not Be Wired For Adult-Like Pain Until Weeks After Birth

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New research reveals that the neural networks responsible for processing pain develop in stages during the final weeks of pregnancy and early life, suggesting that premature babies and even full-term newborns experience pain very differently than adults do. The post Newborn Babies’ Brains May Not Be Wired For Adult-Like Pain Until Weeks After Birth appeared first on Study Finds.

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Newborns Feel Pain Long Before They Can Understand It

Tiny brains register pain early, but lack the networks to interpret or respond to it

11 hours ago·Bucharest, Romania

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Newborn Babies' Brains May Not Be Wired For Adult-Like Pain Until Weeks After Birth

17 hours ago

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Doctors Have Studied How Babies Feel About Pain: the Results Have Been Surprising

Pain is a universal experience, but what about toddlers, these fragile beings who have just been born? For a long time, the pain in newborns, and especially in premature babies, was considered under a simple prism: they would feel pain as adults, with the same intensity. A new [...]

23 hours ago

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