Parental touch reduces pain responses in babies’ brains

Being held by a parent with skin-to-skin contact reduces how strongly a newborn baby’s brain responds to a painful medical jab, finds a new study led by Dr Lorenzo Fabrizi, Dr Laura Jones (both UCL Biosciences) and York University, Canada.

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