Some new parents think their children can feel the pain when it was born. But this assumption is wrong, because the baby can feel pain a few weeks before birth.
Researchers from University College Hospital's Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing in Bloomsbury, London, found the baby can feel pain in pregnancy penginderaannya at week 35-37.
"Babies can distinguish a painful stimulus (pain) with a common touch before he was born," said Lorenzo Fabrizi from University College Hospital's Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing in Bloomsbury, London, as quoted by LiveScience, Saturday (09/10/2011).
Fabrizi said the baby was not able to tell people about what she feels. For the study using electroencephalography (EEG) brain activity by looking at the baby.
"At a very young brains, all stimuli followed by the 'explosion' of brain activity. At a certain point of development of the baby began to respond to specific stimuli," said Fabrizi.
The EEG recording, after 35-37 weeks of no activity in the brain response to certain stimuli while receiving sick. This suggests that infants begin to experience painful stimuli as something different than a touch.
Based on the results of this study is expected to find more effective ways in helping to improve clinical care for babies who are born prematurely (preterm).
In this study, researchers recruited 46 babies and monitor the various stages of brain development activities ranging from the age of the womb 28 weeks to 37 weeks of near normal birth. The results of this study was published on 8 September in the journal Current Biology.
Researchers from University College Hospital's Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing in Bloomsbury, London, found the baby can feel pain in pregnancy penginderaannya at week 35-37.
"Babies can distinguish a painful stimulus (pain) with a common touch before he was born," said Lorenzo Fabrizi from University College Hospital's Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing in Bloomsbury, London, as quoted by LiveScience, Saturday (09/10/2011).
Fabrizi said the baby was not able to tell people about what she feels. For the study using electroencephalography (EEG) brain activity by looking at the baby.
"At a very young brains, all stimuli followed by the 'explosion' of brain activity. At a certain point of development of the baby began to respond to specific stimuli," said Fabrizi.
The EEG recording, after 35-37 weeks of no activity in the brain response to certain stimuli while receiving sick. This suggests that infants begin to experience painful stimuli as something different than a touch.
Based on the results of this study is expected to find more effective ways in helping to improve clinical care for babies who are born prematurely (preterm).
In this study, researchers recruited 46 babies and monitor the various stages of brain development activities ranging from the age of the womb 28 weeks to 37 weeks of near normal birth. The results of this study was published on 8 September in the journal Current Biology.