article_snippet.sent: Dr Rebeccah  Slater, of Oxford’s department of Paediatrics, said:
article_snippet.sent: ‘happening’ inside the infant brain - and
article_snippet.sent: Dr Slater called for a review of the way tiny babies are treated.
article_snippet.sent: ’ she team scanned the brains of ten healthy infants aged between one and six days old, and compared the brains of ten healthy infants aged between one and six days old to the brains of ten adults aged 23 to 36 years.
article_snippet.sent: MRI scans were taken of the babies’ brains as the babies’ brains were poked on the bottom of the babies’ brains feet with a special retracting rod creating a sensation like being poked with a pencil –
article_snippet.sent: mild enough that it did not wake the babies’ brains up.