From agony to analgesia: seeing pain
Dr Rebeccah Slater and Dr Fiona Moultrie
Wednesday, 16 August 2017
Dr Rebeccah Slater and Dr Fiona Moultrie discuss the difficulty in measuring pain in babies during a BBC radio 4 programme exploring pain in humans.
Dr Rebeccah Slater and Dr Fiona Moultrie recently featured in a BBC Radio 4 programme entitled ‘From Agony to Analgesia’. The episode, ‘Seeing Pain’, was broadcast on 16th August 2017 and explored current research in the field of pain, including areas such as pain measurement in premature babies, phantom limb syndrome and chronic pain. Dr Slater and Dr Moultrie explain current approaches used to measure pain in babies, and the possibility of using brain activity as a new measure of pain. In particular, they discuss how pain could be determined specifically in premature babies in the context of the Poppi trial.