Emerging evidence suggests that an important function of the sleeping brain is the removal
of wastes and toxins from the central nervous system (CNS) due to the activation of the brain …

As we know, with continuous medical progress, the treatment of many diseases can be
conducted via surgery, which often relies on general anaesthesia for its satisfactory …

Background Circulating autoantibodies (AB) against brain-antigens, often deemed
pathological, receive increasing attention. We assessed predispositions and …

Infiltrative glioma growth makes surgical excision incomplete, and the residual tumor cells
proliferate rapidly. Residual glioma cells evade phagocytosis by macrophages through …

Background Recently, the safety of repeated and lengthy anesthesia administration has
been called into question, a subset of these animal studies demonstrated that anesthetics …

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease representing the most
common type of dementia in older adults. The major risk factors include increased age …

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of the volatile anesthetic agents
isoflurane and sevoflurane, at clinically relevant concentrations, on the fluidity of lipid …

Using rat electrocorticograms (ECoG), we discuss how detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA)
and its recently proposed extension characterize anesthesia effects in the electrical activity …

Purpose We investigated whether short term infusion of propofol, a highly lipophilic agonist
at GABAA receptors, which is in widespread clinical use as anesthetic and sedative, affects …

Imaging hemodynamic responses to interictal spikes holds promise for presurgical epilepsy
evaluations. Understanding the hemodynamic response function is crucial for accurate …