Anesthesia-Induced State Transitions in Neuronal Populations

Contemporary Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 139-160

  Sleigh, Jamie ^a   Steyn Ross, Moira ^b   Steyn Ross, Alistair ^b   Voss, Logan ^c   Wilson, Marcus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

General anesthesia, state transitions, consciousness, entropy, networks, continuum models

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860885549     PISSN: 2627535X     EISSN: 26275341     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-60761-462-3_7     Document Type: Chapter

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