Disconnecting Consciousness: Is There a Common Anesthetic End Point?

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 123, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1228-1240

  Hudetz, Anthony G ^a   Mashour, George A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT;

CONFERENCE PAPER; CONSCIOUSNESS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FRONTOPARIETAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; ANESTHESIA; BRAIN; DRUG EFFECTS; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ANESTHESIA; ANESTHETICS; BRAIN; CONSCIOUSNESS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; NERVE NET;

EID: 84975457472     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: 15267598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000001353     Document Type: Conference Paper

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