Waking up the brain: a case study of stimulation-induced wakeful unawareness during anaesthesia

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 177, Issue C, 2009, Pages 125-145

  Moll, Christian K E ^a   Sharott, Andrew ^a   Hamel, Wolfgang ^a   Münchau, Alexander ^a   Buhmann, Carsten ^a   Hidding, Ute ^a   Zittel, Simone ^a   Westphal, Manfred ^a   Müller, Dieter ^a   Engel, Andreas K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

arousal; deep brain stimulation; dystonia; general anaesthesia; nucleus basalis of Meynert

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; AWARENESS; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CASE REPORT; DYSTONIA; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; MALE; MEYNERT BASAL NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOCARDIOGRAPHY; REVIEW; SLEEP; WAKEFULNESS; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BRAIN CORTEX; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

INTRAVENOUS ANESTHETIC AGENT; MIDAZOLAM;

ADULT; ANESTHETICS, INTRAVENOUS; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDERS; DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDAZOLAM; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 73949091512     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(09)17710-5     Document Type: Review

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