Brain responses during anaesthesia mimic those during natural deep sleep

Thursday, January 28, 2010 - 04:49 in Psychology & Sociology

The brains of people under anaesthesia respond to stimuli as they do in the deepest part of sleep - lending credence to a developing theory of consciousness and suggesting a new method to assess loss of consciousness in conditions such as coma...

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