期刊
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PAIN
卷 14, 期 3, 页码 321-326出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejpain.2009.05.005
关键词
Pain; Neonate (newborn); EEG; Evoked potential; Principal component analysis
资金
- Medical Research Council
- British Pain Society
- Medical Research Council [G0502146] Funding Source: researchfish
- MRC [G0502146] Funding Source: UKRI
While human infants can display distinctive behavioural and physiological spinal cord and brainstem responses to noxious stimulation, it is not known whether cortical neurons are specifically activated by noxious stimuli in newborns. Here, using a novel approach to time-lock an EEG recording to a clinically required heel lance, we show the presence of a distinct nociceptive-specific potential in newborn infants (35-39 weeks postmenstrual age). The potential can be observed in single trials in the central electrodes (Cz and CPz) and using principal component analysis is characterised by a positivity that occurs at approximately 560 ms post-stimulus (N420-P560; P, positive; N, negative). The magnitude of the nociceptive-specific potential is not dependent on sleep state, whereas an earlier potential (N150-P260-N430), which is sleep-state dependent, is evoked by both noxious and non-noxious stimulation. These results provide the first direct evidence of specific noxious-evoked neural activity in the infant brain and suggest that newborn infants are capable of the sensory-discriminative aspects of pain experience. (C) 2009 European Federation of International Association for the Study of Pain Chapters. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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