Altered consciousness: pharmacology and phenomenology BAP Summer Meeting, York, July 1991: Sleep and general anaesthesia as altered states of consciousness.
Journal of Psychopharmacology January 1992 R Munglani, J G Jones
In this article parallels are drawn between sleep and anaesthesia. Both can be described as 'behavioural states' in which stimulation and inhibition of certain neuronal groups will give rise to specific psychological states. The neuronal mechanisms leading to these states are reviewed and compared. Sensory information flow through the thalamus is reduced in sleep and anaesthesia, the thalamic...