Our research group is located in the Pain Treatment Service at Boston Children's Hospital. Click for map of Boston Children's Hospital. Our mailing address is:  Pain Treatment Service 333 Longwood Avenue (5th floor) Boston, MA 02115 For questions …

  Every year about 200,000 infants in the United States are given general anesthesia during their first year of life. We used a electroencephalography (EEG) to monitor brain activity in infants undergoing anesthesia, to see how their responses to …

  Neosaxitoxin (NeoSTX) is a site-1 sodium channel blocker that produces local anesthesia. Under an FDA-approved phase 1 Investigational New Drug Trial, we evaluated safety and efficacy of NeoSTX, alone, and in combination bupivacaine, and with and …

  Skin sensation is important in our everyday lives. Our skin is sensitive to all types of stimuli such as touch, pressure and temperature. This helps us to tell when something feels rough, cold, or painful, for example. Quantitative sensory testing (QST) …

  The Boston Children’s Hospital Center for Collaborative Community Research (C-CORE) was created in 2010 with grant funding from the National Institutes of Health and internal funding from Boston Children’s Hospital’s Translational Research Program. …

  Intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) collectively affect one in six individuals in the US, with profound medical, social and economic consequences. Our center is dedicated to improving the lives of individuals with intellectual and …

  The Early Psychosis Investigation Center (EPICenter) is dedicated to understanding, identifying and treating children and adolescents with psychotic disorders. We are a group of doctors, scientists, and clinicians at Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH) who …

  C-CORE Research Team C-CORE’s Research Team supports community-based participatory research (CBPR) that aims to serve community priorities, produce sustainable interventions, and lead to policy change.  The Research Team aims to expand the number of …

  C-CORE Dissemination Team C-CORE’s Dissemination Team promotes the dissemination of research findings to diverse stakeholders in the greater Boston community and beyond.  We aim to provide C-CORE affiliates with resource materials and promote community …

  What is magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)? Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a technique that utilizes various physics principles to take pictures of the brain. A powerful magnet (the circular tube structure) is used to align molecules. Radio waves are …