In a windowless room inside a London hospital, a newborn winces as a heel is pricked for a routine blood test. The response ...

In a nutshell Baby brains develop pain processing in stages, with sensory networks maturing first (34-36 weeks), emotional ...

Ko, HG., Jung, H., Han, S. et al. Processing of pain and itch information by modality-specific neurons within the anterior cingulate cortex in mice. Nat Commun , 2025 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-57041 ...

Brain imaging shows activity in the anterior cingulate cortex, a pain-processing region shown above in yellow, when a patient responds to a placebo for pain relief, but the true mechanism for the ...

The researchers placed electrodes in two brain areas: the orbitofrontal cortex, which hasn’t been studied much in pain research, and the anterior cingulate cortex, a region involved in ...

UCL researchers map how babies' brains develop three different pain networks at different developmental stages.

They found that acute pain was more associated with the anterior cingulate cortex, providing the first direct evidence that chronic pain and acute pain involve different areas of the brain, per ...

As such, the shift in the power from low to high frequencies caused by psilocybin may indicate that the anterior cingulate cortex transmits and receives less information to and from faraway brain ...

A study published in Nature Communications reports that a key function of the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) is to help the brain adapt to performing new tasks. When the researchers changed the rules ...

When people were left out of a simple virtual ball-tossing game, their brain activity mirrored the response to physical pain, showing activation of a brain region called the anterior cingulate cortex.