Roska group researchers find: When unconscious, the brain is anything but ‘silent’
Improving our understanding of the neuronal mechanisms of general anesthesia could lead to better anesthetic drugs and improved surgical outcomes.
- Improving our understanding of the neuronal mechanisms of general anesthesia could lead to better anesthetic drugs and improved surgical outcomes.
- Thus, they communicate both between different cortical areas, as well as from the cortex to other areas of the brain.
- Prior work has proposed that loss of consciousness occurs through the disconnection of cortex from the rest of the brain.
- Maybe this will help researchers develop new drugs to more specifically target the cells in the brain associated with unconsciousness.