Judith H. Meek

The paper investigates how spontaneous cortical activity in preterm infants reduces their excitability to external stimuli, revealing a refractory period mechanism.

This study maps the postnatal development of brain networks for pain processing in infants, showing differential maturation of sensory, affective, and cognitive pain subnetworks.

The paper shows that newborn infants have widespread nociceptive maps in the somatosensory cortex, aligning with their disorganised pain behaviour.

This study investigates how term and preterm infants adapt to repeated noxious stimuli using EEG, finding that preterm infants lack the ability to update predictions for pain adaptation.