Effects of volatile anesthetic agents on cerebral cortical synchronization in sheep

D Li, LJ Voss, JW Sleigh, X Li - Anesthesiology, 2013 - pubs.asahq.org
Background: The exact neurophysiological mechanisms of anesthetic-induced
unconsciousness are not yet fully elucidated. The cortical information integration theory …

Dynamic cortical connectivity during general anesthesia in healthy volunteers

D Li, PE Vlisides, MB Kelz, MS Avidan… - Anesthesiology, 2019 - pubs.asahq.org
Abstract Editor's Perspective What We Already Know about This Topic Anesthetic-induced
loss of consciousness is accompanied by changes in functional connectivity within and …

Global field synchrony during general anaesthesia

N Nicolaou, J Georgiou - British journal of anaesthesia, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Background Anaesthetic agents may disrupt consciousness by inhibiting long-range
synchronization of brain activity. In the current study, the patterns of widespread and …

[HTML][HTML] Level of consciousness is dissociable from electroencephalographic measures of cortical connectivity, slow oscillations, and complexity

D Pal, D Li, JG Dean, MA Brito, T Liu… - Journal of …, 2020 - Soc Neuroscience
Leading neuroscientific theories posit a central role for the functional integration of cortical
areas in conscious states. Considerable evidence supporting this hypothesis is based on …

Disruption of corticocortical information transfer during ketamine anesthesia in the primate brain

KE Schroeder, ZT Irwin, M Gaidica, JN Bentley… - Neuroimage, 2016 - Elsevier
The neural mechanisms of anesthetic-induced unconsciousness have yet to be fully
elucidated, in part because of the diverse molecular targets of anesthetic agents. We …

Neural correlates of sevoflurane-induced unconsciousness identified by simultaneous functional magnetic resonance imaging and electroencephalography

A Ranft, D Golkowski, T Kiel, V Riedl, P Kohl… - …, 2016 - pubs.asahq.org
Background The neural correlates of anesthetic-induced unconsciousness have yet to be
fully elucidated. Sedative and anesthetic states induced by propofol have been studied …

Consciousness, anesthesia, and neural synchrony

GA Mashour - Anesthesiology, 2013 - pubs.asahq.org
In the late 1990s, there was excitement in the field of neuroscience regarding the potential
role of synchrony as a neural correlate of consciousness. 6 Neural synchrony was thought to …

Neural correlates of wakefulness, sleep, and general anesthesia: an experimental study in rat

D Pal, BH Silverstein, H Lee, GA Mashour - Anesthesiology, 2016 - pubs.asahq.org
Background Significant advances have been made in our understanding of subcortical
processes related to anesthetic-and sleep-induced unconsciousness, but the associated …

Propofol-induced anesthesia alters corticocortical functional connectivity in the human brain: An EEG source space analysis

X Zhao, Y Wang, Y Zhang, H Wang, J Ren, F Yan… - Neuroscience …, 2021 - Springer
Anesthetic-induced unconsciousness is accompanied by decreased information exchange
among relevant cortical functional modular areas that support normal cognitive function [1] …

General anesthesia and the neural correlates of consciousness

MT Alkire, J Miller - Progress in brain research, 2005 - Elsevier
The neural correlates of consciousness must be identified, but how? Anesthetics can be
used as tools to dissect the nervous system. Anesthetics not only allow for the experimental …