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Although anesthetics have been used successfully for over 150 years, their mechanisms of action are little understood, a fact that significantly limits our ability to design new and safer agents. In Neural Mechanisms of Anesthesia, leading investigators critically evaluate the latest information on how anesthetics work at the molecular, cellular, organ, and whole animal level. These distinguished experts review anesthetic effects on memory, consciousness, and movement and spell out in detail both the anatomic structures and physiological processes that are their likely targets, as well as the cellular and molecular mechanisms by which they operate. They also discuss drugs that are not truly general anesthetics, but are frequently used in clinical practice and can affect the action of general anesthetics (e.g., local anesthetics, opiates, neuromuscular blocking drugs).
Comprehensive and authoritative, Neural Mechanisms of Anesthesia draws together and critically reviews all the recent research on anesthetic mechanisms, highlighting the precise routes along which these substances operate, and how this deeper understanding will lead to the design of effective drugs free of undesirable side effects. - Reviews
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"The major strength of this work is that it covers all levels of analysis from observations in behaving humans or animals to studies of molecular and physiochemical phenomena. This provides an excellent opportunity to attenuate the traditional boundaries between molecular and systems level research." -Neural Mechanisms of Anesthesia
- Table of contents (27 chapters)
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The Development of Concepts of Mechanisms of Anesthesia
Pages 3-10
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Mechanisms of Consciousness with Emphasis on the Cerebral Cortical Component
Pages 13-20
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Anesthesia Meets Memory
Pages 21-62
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Sleep and Anesthesia
Pages 65-74
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Possible Relationships of Anesthetic Coma and Pathological Disorders of Consciousness
Pages 75-89
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Table of contents (27 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Neural Mechanisms of Anesthesia
- Editors
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- Joseph E. Antognini
- Series Title
- Contemporary Clinical Neuroscience
- Copyright
- 2003
- Publisher
- Humana Press
- Copyright Holder
- Humana Press
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-59259-322-4
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-1-59259-322-4
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-0-89603-997-1
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-61737-294-0
- Series ISSN
- 2627-535X
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XII, 466
- Topics
