General Anesthesia and Human Brain Connectivity

Brain Connectivity

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 291-302

  Hudetz, Anthony G ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

anesthesiology; consciousness; default mode network; functional connectivity; resting state

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878653108     PISSN: 21580014     EISSN: 21580022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/brain.2012.0107     Document Type: Review

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