Infant Pain, Adult Repercussions: How Infant Pain Changes Sensitivity In Adults
Monday, September 28, 2009 - 20:14
in Health & Medicine
Scientists have uncovered the mechanisms of how pain in infancy alters how the brain processes pain in adulthood. Research is now indicating that infants who spent time in the neonatal intensive care unit show altered pain sensitivity in adolescence. These results have profound implications and highlight the need for pre-emptive and post-operative pain medicine for newborn infants.