Harnessing anesthesia and brain imaging for the study of human consciousness

Current Pharmaceutical Design

Volumn 20, Issue 26, 2014, Pages 4211-4224

  Långsjö, Jaakko W ^a,b   Revonsuo, Antti ^c,d   Scheinin, Harry ^a,c  

^a TURKU PET CENTRE   (Finland)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SKÖVDE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Anesthesia; Connectedness; Consciousness; Magnetic resonance imaging; Neuroimaging; Positron emission tomography; Responsiveness

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT;

ANESTHESIA LEVEL; BALANCED ANESTHESIA; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN METABOLISM; CONSCIOUSNESS; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTRAOPERATIVE AWARENESS; MEMORY; MICROTUBULE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPLIT BRAIN; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; ANESTHESIA; BRAIN; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ANESTHESIA; BRAIN; CONSCIOUSNESS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84904768808     PISSN: 13816128     EISSN: 18734286     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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