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NYU Dataset
Infant pain vs. pain with parental suppression: Immediate and enduring impact on brain, pain and affect
- Authors
- Gordon A. BarrMaya OpendakRosemarie E. PerryEmma Sarro1 more author(s)...
- Description
To investigate the impact of social buffering on pain, the study team administered mild tail shocks to infant rat pups at postnatal day (PN) 8 or 12, with or without their mothers. They hypothesized that repeated exposure to shock would alter their inflammatory pain responses as adults when experienced between PN5 and 9 (pain sensitive period prior to functional maturation of the amygdala), whereas...
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Mental HealthNeuroscience
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