Plenary Abstracts

Abstract

This presentation will focus upon our understanding of how pain is processed in the developing spinal cord and brain. The neurobiological, mechanistic approach provides (i) pre-dictive and testable theories of early life pain from age-appropriate animal models using new technologies and (ii) a scientific framework for better measurement & treatment of pain in infants and children. Pain is learned in infancy – and so discoveries in this area are relevant to us all.