Anesthesia and the Thalamocortical System

摘要: Neuroimaging the effect of anesthesia in human brain reveals that suppresses functioning both a global- and regional-specific manner. The suppression activity generally has global component to it (i.e., entire seems shut down), but on top few select regions appear be more suppressed than rest some areas sensitive effects anesthesia). These regionally include parietal frontal cortical along with consistently observed shows thalamic activity. It remains unknown as which these caused by are most important for producing loss consciousness. This chapter will discuss recent findings from research serve implicate role thalamocortical system mediating