Probing the mind: Anesthesia and neuroimaging

Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 149-152

  Alkire, M T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; CYCLOPROPANE; KETAMINE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID; NITROUS OXIDE; SEVOFLURANE;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANESTHESIA; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN INJURY; CONSCIOUSNESS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DOSE RESPONSE; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS; LONG TERM MEMORY; LOW DRUG DOSE; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDER; NARCOLEPSY; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROGRADE AMNESIA; REVIEW; SINGLE DRUG DOSE;

ANESTHESIA; ANESTHETICS; BRAIN; CONSCIOUSNESS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS;

EID: 45549094955     PISSN: 00099236     EISSN: 15326535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/clpt.2008.75     Document Type: Review

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