Isoflurane induces dose-dependent alterations in the cortical connectivity profiles and dynamic properties of the brain's functional architecture

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 5754-5775

  Hutchison, R Matthew ^a,b,c   Hutchison, Melina ^d   Manning, Kathryn Y ^a   Menon, Ravi S ^a   Everling, Stefan ^a,e  

^a ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anesthesia; Connectivity; Consciousness; Functional repertoire resting state functional MRI

Indexed keywords

ISOFLURANE; INHALATION ANESTHETIC AGENT;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MEGADOSE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MACACA FASCICULARIS; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN SATURATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; ANIMAL; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECTS; FEMALE; MALE; NERVE TRACT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REST; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ANESTHETICS, INHALATION; ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; ISOFLURANE; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; REST; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

EID: 84911440952     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22583     Document Type: Article

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