From the Minds of Babes: New frontiers in paediatric pain

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Medical professionals used to believe that babies simply don’t feel pain. Building on critical work started in Oxford in the 1980s that proved them wrong, Dr Rebeccah Slater is developing new ways to see inside the minds of newborns. More details here:http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2015-04-21-b… and full paper here: http://elifesciences.org/content/4/e0…

In work funded by the MRC, the NIHR and the Wellcome Trust, Dr Slater is using state-of-the-art brain scanning technology to look at babies’ neurological responses to painful stimuli, so that we can understand which drugs can help them.

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