Loss of effective connectivity during general anesthesia

International Anesthesiology Clinics

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 55-73

  Alkire, Michael T ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ANESTHETIC AGENT; KETAMINE; MIDAZOLAM; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC AGENT; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; PROPOFOL; SEVOFLURANE; THIOPENTAL;

ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN METABOLISM; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; CEREBELLUM; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONSCIOUSNESS; DISSOCIATION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FRONTAL CORTEX; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; HYPNOSIS; LOW DRUG DOSE; MEMORY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROIMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REM SLEEP; SEDATION; SLEEP; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; THALAMUS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; WAKEFULNESS; WORKING MEMORY; ANIMAL; BRAIN; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; METABOLISM; NERVE TRACT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REVIEW; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; VASCULARIZATION;

ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ANESTHETICS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CONSCIOUSNESS; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEURAL PATHWAYS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

EID: 53449088283     PISSN: 00205907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AIA.0b013e3181755dc6     Document Type: Article

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