A shift in sensory processing that enables the developing human brain to discriminate touch from pain

Current Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 1552-1558

  Fabrizi, Lorenzo ^a   Slater, Rebeccah ^a,b   Worley, Alan ^c   Meek, Judith ^d   Boyd, Stewart ^c   Olhede, Sofia ^a   Fitzgerald, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d Napolitano and Prof David)   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; GESTATIONAL AGE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; NEWBORN; NOCICEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREMATURITY; TOUCH;

AGE FACTORS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; NOCICEPTION; PAIN PERCEPTION; TOUCH PERCEPTION;

EID: 80053319744     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2011.08.010     Document Type: Article

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