Anesthesia, consciousness and hydrophobic pockets - A unitary quantum hypothesis of anesthetic action

Toxicology Letters

Volumn 100-101, Issue , 1998, Pages 31-39

  Hameroff, Stuart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anesthetic mechanism; Consciousness; Protein conformation; Quantum computation; Quantum theory

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; BRAIN PROTEIN; HALOTHANE; PAPAIN;

ANESTHESIA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONSCIOUSNESS; DRUG MECHANISM; ELECTRON; HYDROPHOBICITY; HYPOTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; QUANTUM THEORY;

ANESTHESIA; ANESTHETICS; ANIMALS; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL; CONSCIOUSNESS; HUMANS; QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0032418260     PISSN: 03784274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4274(98)00162-3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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