The development of nociceptive circuits

M Fitzgerald - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2005 - nature.com
The study of pain development has come into its own. Rea** the rewards of years of
developmental and molecular biology, it has now become possible to translate fundamental …

Impact of repeated procedural pain-related stress in infants born very preterm

J Vinall, RE Grunau - Pediatric research, 2014 - nature.com
The majority of infants born very preterm (24–32 wk gestational age) now survive; however,
long-term neurodevelopmental and behavioral problems remain a concern. As part of their …

Prevention and management of procedural pain in the neonate: an update

E Keels, N Sethna, KL Watterberg, JJ Cummings… - …, 2016 - publications.aap.org
Background Neonates are frequently subjected to painful procedures, with the most
immature infants receiving the highest number of painful events. 3,–5 Despite …

Infant pain management: a developmental neurobiological approach

M Fitzgerald, SM Walker - Nature Clinical Practice Neurology, 2009 - nature.com
Infant pain is a clinical reality. Effective pain management in infants requires a specialist
approach—analgesic protocols that have been designed for older children cannot simply be …

Book Review: The neurobiology of pain: Developmental aspects

M Fitzgerald, S Beggs - The Neuroscientist, 2001 - journals.sagepub.com
Invasive procedures that would be painful in children and adults are frequently performed on
infants admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit. This article discusses sensory responses …

Circuits for gras**: spinal dI3 interneurons mediate cutaneous control of motor behavior

TV Bui, T Akay, O Loubani, TS Hnasko, TM Jessell… - Neuron, 2013 - cell.com
Accurate motor performance depends on the integration in spinal microcircuits of sensory
feedback information. Hand grasp is a skilled motor behavior known to require cutaneous …

The postnatal development of spinal sensory processing

M Fitzgerald, E Jennings - Proceedings of the National …, 1999 - National Acad Sciences
The mechanisms by which infants and children process pain should be viewed within the
context of a develo** sensory nervous system. The study of the neurophysiological …

Hindpaw incision in early life increases the hyperalgesic response to repeat surgical injury: critical period and dependence on initial afferent activity

SM Walker, KK Tochiki, M Fitzgerald - PAIN®, 2009 - Elsevier
Pain in early life can enhance the response to subsequent injury, but effects are influenced
by both the nature and timing of neonatal injury. Using plantar hindpaw incision, we …

The postnatal reorganization of primary afferent input and dorsal horn cell receptive fields in the rat spinal cord is an activity‐dependent process

S Beggs, C Torsney, LJ Drew… - European Journal of …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
The dorsal horn of the spinal cord in the newborn rat is characterized by large cutaneous
mechanoreceptive fields, a predominance of A‐fibre synaptic inputs and diffuse primary …

Cutaneous flexion reflex in human neonates: a quantitative study of threshold and stimulus-response characteristics after single and repeated stimuli

K Andrews, M Fitzgerald - Developmental medicine and child …, 1999 - cambridge.org
The cutaneous flexion reflex has been used to study spinal sensory processing in 68 infants
(37 female, 31 male) aged between 28 and 42 weeks postconceptional age (PCA) …