These findings highlight the importance of developing interventions to help parents to best support and coach their children during painful medical procedures right from their first needles as a baby. (sciencedaily.com)
In contrast, the more painful medical procedures those premature infants had to endure, the less their brain responded to gentle touch later. (sciencedaily.com)
Subsequently, participants were shown photos of painful medical procedures performed on the hand, and asked to vividly imagine the pain of the depicted patient. (sciencedaily.com)