Protective down-regulated states in the human brain: A possible lesson from COVID-19

<jats:p>The COVID-19 pandemic has created a large population of patients who are slow to recover consciousness following mechanical ventilation and sedation in the intensive care unit. Few clinical scenarios are comparable. Possible exceptions are the rare patients in post-cardiac arrest coma...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Schiff, Nicholas D, Brown, Emery N
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2023
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/148701