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Sleep and Anesthesia: Neural Correlates in Theory and Experiment

Sleep and Anesthesia: Neural Correlates in Theory and Experiment

Hutt, Axel

Paperback

Series: Springer Computational Neuroscience, Book 15

Medical ReferenceGeneral Computers

ISBN10: 1461430240
ISBN13: 9781461430247
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Nov 6 2013
Pages: 260
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Sleep and anesthesia resemble in many ways at a first glance. The most prominent common feature of course is the loss of consciousness, i.e. the loss of awareness of external stimuli. However a closer look at the loss of consciousness reveals already a difference between sleep and anesthesia: anesthesia is induced by an anesthetic drug whereas we may fall asleep without external cause. Other questions may arise about the difference of the two effects: do we dream during surgery under anesthesia, do we feel pain during sleep? Essentially, we may ask: what is common and what are the differences between sleep and anesthesia? To answer these questions, we may take a look at the neural origin of both effects and the involved physiological pathways. In which way do they resemble? Moreover, we ask what are the detailed features of normal sleep and general anesthesia as applied during surgery and which features exist in both phenomena? If yes in which way?

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