Anesthesia/ consciousness (Introduction)

by David Turell , Tuesday, March 05, 2013, 15:49 (4282 days ago)

Learning how to moitor consciousness in surgery:-http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/03/130304211530.htm-"The researchers believe that these alpha and low-frequency oscillations, which they also detected in last year's study, produce unconsciousness by disrupting normal communication between different brain regions. The oscillations appear to constrain the amount of information that can pass between the frontal cortex and the thalamus, which normally communicate with each other across a very broad frequency band to relay sensory information and control attention."