Conscious processing: Implications for general anesthesia

Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 397-404

  Changeux, Jean Pierre G ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

allosteric sites; general anesthetics action; reafference; recurrent feedback processing

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; CHLORIDE CHANNEL; IVERMECTIN; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; NEUROTRANSMITTER; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; PROPOFOL;

ANESTHESIA LEVEL; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CEREBELLUM; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONSCIOUSNESS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; PARIETAL CORTEX; PHOTOAFFINITY LABELING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; WAKEFULNESS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ALLOSTERIC REGULATION; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ANESTHETICS, GENERAL; ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CONSCIOUSNESS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; ION CHANNELS; RECEPTORS, GABA-A;

EID: 84863791625     PISSN: 09527907     EISSN: 14736500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACO.0b013e32835561de     Document Type: Review

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