Familiarity breeds content? Soothing effect of a familiar odor on full-term newborns

Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 189-194

  Goubet, Nathalie ^a   Strasbaugh, Kathleen ^a   Chesney, Jennifer ^a  

^a GETTYSBURG COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Familiarity; Newborns; Olfaction; Pain

Indexed keywords

VANILLIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CRYING; DISTRESS SYNDROME; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HEEL; HUMAN; MALE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN PERIOD; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; OLFACTORY MEMORY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMELLING;

AROMATHERAPY; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CRYING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT BEHAVIOR; INFANT, NEWBORN; ODORS; PAIN THRESHOLD; PHLEBOTOMY; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SMELL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 34250638535     PISSN: 0196206X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/dbp.0b013e31802d0b8d     Document Type: Article

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