A study has uncovered new insights into how the brain processes and integrates pain information. The research goes beyond identifying brain areas that respond to pain, revealing the mechanisms behind the brain's integration of pain-related information.

Researchers have created one of the first comprehensive maps of how the brain changes throughout pregnancy, substantially improving upon understanding of an understudied field.

Changes that sweep the the human brain during pregnancy have been documented for the first time, using precise MRI scans. Scientists conducted 26 brain scans on and took blood samples from a healthy 38-year-old woman,