The relationship between nociceptive brain activity, spinal reflex withdrawal and behaviour in newborn infants

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Hartley, Caroline ^a   Goksan, Sezgi ^b   Poorun, Ravi ^b   Brotherhood, Kelly ^a   Mellado, Gabriela Schmidt ^a   Moultrie, Fiona ^a   Rogers, Richard ^c   Adams, Eleri ^a   Slater, Rebeccah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMAN; NEWBORN; NOCICEPTION; NON-THERAPEUTIC RESEARCH; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REFLEX; SPINAL CORD;

BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; NOCICEPTION; NONTHERAPEUTIC HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; REFLEX; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 84938507399     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep12519     Document Type: Article

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