Fragmenting consciousness

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 49, 2012, Pages 19876-19877

  Mashour, George A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROPOFOL;

AUDITORY STIMULATION; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEADY STATE; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANESTHETICS, INTRAVENOUS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; NERVE NET; PROPOFOL; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

EID: 84870602660     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1217595109     Document Type: Note

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