BookGiuseppe Buonocore, Carlo Valerio Bellieni, editors.
PART I Delivery and Pain -- Gonadal Hormones and Pain Modulation -- Stress and Pregnancy: CRF as Biochemical Marker -- Pain Control During Labour -- PART II Fetal Pain -- Ultrasound and Fetal Stress: Study of the Fetal Blink-Startle Reflex Evoked by Acoustic Stimuli -- Prenatal Affective Exchanges and Their Subsequent Effects in Postnatal Life -- Pain in the Fetus -- New Insights into Prenatal Stress: Immediate and Long-Term Effects on the Fetus and Their Timing -- PART III Neonatal Pain -- Pain Assessment and Spectral Analysis of Neonatal Crying -- Analgesic Procedures in Newborns -- Nonpharmacological Treatment of Neonatal Pain -- Sensory Saturation: An Analgesic Method -- Pharmacologic Analgesia in the Newborn -- Physical Stress Risk Agents in Incubators -- Fetal surgery analgesia -- PART IV Pain: a Risk Factor for Brain Damage -- Neonatal Stressors -- New Insights into Neonatal Hypersensitivity -- From the Gate-Control Theory to Brain Programs for Neonatal Pain -- PART V Pain and Communication -- Disclosure of Pathology to the Newborn's Family -- Communication of Diagnosis: Pain and Grief in the Experience of Parents of Children with a Congenital Malformation -- Invest in Prenatal Life: A High-Yield Stock.