We review the central tenets and neuroanatomical basis of the global neuronal workspace
(GNW) hypothesis, which attempts to account for the main scientific observations regarding …

The multimodal properties of the human somatosensory system continue to be unravelled.
There is mounting evidence that one of these submodalities—touch—has another …

Modern health care has brought our society innumerable benefits but has also introduced
the experience of pain very early in life. For example, it is now routine care for newborns to …

Preterm infants are exposed to frequent painful procedures and agitating stimuli over the
many weeks of their hospitalization in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). The adverse …

Although each of us was once a baby, infant consciousness remains mysterious and there is
no received view about when, and in what form, consciousness first emerges. Some …

Objective: Preterm infants are exposed to multiple painful procedures in the neonatal
intensive care unit (NICU) during a period of rapid brain development. Our aim was to …

Background: Neonates cared for in neonatal intensive care units are exposed to many
painful and stressful procedures that, cumulatively, could impact later neurodevelopmental …

Abstract Effects of early life psychosocial adversity have received a great deal of attention,
such as maternal separation in experimental animal models and abuse/neglect in young …

The first postnatal year is characterized by the most dramatic functional network
development of the human lifespan. Yet, the relative sequence of the maturation of different …

Background Administration of oral sucrose with and without non‐nutritive sucking is the most
frequently studied non‐pharmacological intervention for procedural pain relief in neonates …