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Evidences of emerging pain consciousness during prenatal development: a narrative review

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NEUROLOGICAL SCIENCES
卷 43, 期 6, 页码 3523-3532

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SPRINGER-VERLAG ITALIA SRL
DOI: 10.1007/s10072-022-05968-2

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Onset of consciousness; Fetal life; Preterm neonate; Newborn

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This article reviews the onset of consciousness during fetal life, and through literature review, it is found that it is rather unlikely for the infant to be seen as a conscious human before 24 weeks of gestational age from a neuroanatomical point of view.
Background The study of consciousness has always been considered a challenge for neonatologists, even more when considering the uterine period. Our review aimed to individuate at what gestational age the fetus, which later became a premature infant, can feel the perception of external stimuli. Therefore, the aim of our review was to study the onset of consciousness during the fetal life. Materials and methods A literature search was performed in Medline-PubMed database. We included all papers found with the following MeSH words: consciousness or cognition or awareness or comprehension or cognitive or consciousness of pain in combination with embryo or fetus or fetal life or newborn. Studies were selected if titles and/or abstracts suggested an association between formation of consciousness (the basics of neurodevelopment) and preterm infant or fetus. Titles and abstracts were first screened by three independent reviewers according to Cochrane Collaboration's recommendations. Results From the literature review, we found only 8 papers describing the onset of consciousness in the transition period from fetus to premature newborn. Therefore, according to these papers, we temporally analyzed the formation of the thalamocortical connections that are the basis of consciousness. Conclusions We can conclude that from a neuroanatomical point of view, it is rather unlikely that the infant can be seen as a conscious human before 24 weeks of gestational age, thus before all the thalamocortical connections are established. Further literature data have to confirm this hypothesis.

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