Repetitive neonatal pain and neurocognitive abilities in ex-preterm children

Affiliations

¹ St. Jude Endowed Chair for Critical Care Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA Boling Center for Developmental Disabilities, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA Division of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA.

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Kanwaljeet J S Anand et al. Pain. 2013 Oct.

. 2013 Oct;154(10):1899-1901.

doi: 10.1016/j.pain.2013.06.027. Epub 2013 Jun 20.

¹ St. Jude Endowed Chair for Critical Care Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA Boling Center for Developmental Disabilities, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA Division of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA.

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Keywords: Child; Cognition; Infant–premature; Long term; Magnetoencephalography; Neuroimaging; Visual-perceptual.

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Neonatal pain-related stress, functional cortical activity and visual-perceptual abilities in school-age children born at extremely low gestational age.
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