Diminished reactivity of postmature human infants to sucrose compared with term infants
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9787108 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Barbara A Smith (0009-0002-2413-6466, Johns Hopkins University, corresponding author), Kathleen R Stevens (0000-0001-7217-6847), Kathleen Stevens, Warren S Torgerson, Joon H Kim |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 811-820 |
| Publication date | 1992-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Developmental Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0012-1649 • E-ISSN: 1939-0599 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1037/0012-1649.28.5.811 |
| OpenAlex | W2083048987 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
Sucrose is an effective calming and analgesic agent in infant humans, and characteristics of this calming effect suggest it may occur through an opioid pathway. Implications of this would be that infants who have experienced chronic prenatal stress and concomitantly elevated levels of endogenous opioids resulting in tolerance should therefore be less responsive to sucrose than nonstressed infants. To test this, we compared healthy term infants (M = 39 weeks 3 days) and chronically stressed, postmature infants (M = 42 weeks) with respect to the sucrose-mediated calming effect at 5-91 hr of age
Developmental psychology · Reactivity (psychology · Term (time · Infant Development and Preterm Care · Infant Health and Development · Medicine · Neuroscience of respiration and sleep · Pediatric Pain Management Techniques · Physiology · Psychology · Pediatrics
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |