General Anesthesia: A Probe to Explore Consciousness
Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience August 14, 2019 Vincent Bonhomme, Cécile Staquet, Javier Montupil et al. 109 citations
General anesthesia reversibly alters consciousness, without shutting down the brain globally. Depending on the anesthetic agent and dose, it may produce different consciousness states including a complete absence of subjective experience (unconsciousness), a conscious experience without perception of the environment (disconnected consciousness, like during dreaming), or episodes of oriented...