Suppressing the Mind Anesthetic Modulation of Memory and Consciousness /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Hudetz, Anthony (Editor), Pearce, Robert (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press, 2010.
• Series: Contemporary Clinical Neuroscience
• Subjects: Medicine.; Human physiology.; Neurosciences.; Anesthesiology.; Neurology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Human Physiology.

By suppressing memory and consciousness - two components of the mind - anesthetics provide great relief to surgical patients and elicit wonder in clinicians and scientists. To-date we do not fully understand the mechanisms by which these effects are achieved. However, with recent advances in investi...

Table of Contents:

• Molecular Targets of General Anesthetics in the Nervous System
• A Neurochemical Perspective on States of Consciousness
• Anesthetic Modulation of Auditory Perception: Linking Cellular, Circuit, and Behavioral Effects
• Cortical Disintegration Mechanism of Anesthetic-Induced Unconsciousness
• Anesthesia and the Thalamocortical System
• Anesthesia-Induced State Transitions in Neuronal Populations
• Anesthesia Awareness: When the Mind Is Not Suppressed
• Loss of Recall and the Hippocampal Circuit Effects Produced by Anesthetics
• Modulation of the Hippocampal ?-Rhythm as a Mechanism for Anesthetic-Induced Amnesia
• Propofol Amnesia – What is Going on in the Brain?.