General Anesthesia and Altered States of Arousal: A Systems Neuroscience Analysis

Placing a patient in a state of general anesthesia is crucial for safely and humanely performing most surgical and many nonsurgical procedures. How anesthetic drugs create the state of general anesthesia is considered a major mystery of modern medicine. Unconsciousness, induced by altered arousal an...

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Main Authors: Brown, Emery N., Purdon, Patrick Lee, Van Dort, Christa
Other Authors: Harvard University--MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Annual Reviews 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/86331
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5651-5060
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2668-7819
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7734-6008