The howling cortex: Seizures and general anesthetic drugs

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 107, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1689-1703

  Voss, Logan J ^a   Sleigh, James W ^a,c   Barnard, John P M ^a   Kirsch, Heidi E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c WAIKATO HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE; ENFLURANE; ETOMIDATE; FENTANYL; KETAMINE; MORPHINE; MU OPIATE RECEPTOR AGONIST; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; NALTREXONE; NITROUS OXIDE; OPIATE; PROPOFOL; SEVOFLURANE;

ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; BRAIN CORTEX; CELL SPECIFICITY; CELL SUBPOPULATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPTIC STATE; EXCITATION; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; HYPERVENTILATION; INCIDENCE; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; INTERNEURON; MINIMUM LUNG ALVEOLUS CONCENTRATION; MYOCLONUS; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEIZURE; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DYSTONIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; MOTOR ACTIVITY;

ANESTHESIA; ANESTHETICS, GENERAL; ANIMALS; DYSTONIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; KETAMINE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PROPOFOL; SEIZURES;

EID: 56149100139     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ane.0b013e3181852595     Document Type: Review

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