Anesthesia and the Thalamocortical System

Contemporary Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 127-138

  Alkire, Michael T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anesthesia; arousal; awareness; central medial thalamus; desflurane; sevoflurane; thalamocortical; unconsciousness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871612581     PISSN: 2627535X     EISSN: 26275341     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-60761-462-3_6     Document Type: Chapter

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