Sleep and Anesthesia
Neural Correlates in Theory and Experiment
Editors: Hutt, Axel (Ed.)
- The book is motivated by two successful workshops on anesthesia and sleep organized during the Computational Neuroscience Conferences in Toronto in 2007 and in Berlin 2009.
- Elucidates important issues in theoretical models that at the same time reflect some current major research interests.
- The book discusses not only neural activity in the brain but also the effects of general anesthesia on the cardio-vascular system and the spinal cord in the context of analgesia.
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Sleep and anesthesia seem so similar that the task of analyzing the neurological similarities and differences between the two is an obvious research postulate. Both involve the loss of consciousness, or the loss of awareness of external stimuli. Yet when we investigate further, key differences start to manifest themselves—anesthesia is drug-induced while sleep requires no external cause being only the most salient. Other fascinating questions crowd in too: do we dream while under anesthesia, and do we feel pain while sleeping? Examining neural activity associated with sleep and anesthesia can be effected at various levels, from the microscopic, single-neuron level right up to that of whole neural populations.
This book aims to reveal the underlying neural mechanisms of sleep and anesthesia by employing a range of experimental techniques and applying theoretical models of neural activity that predict the mechanisms related to both states. Of course, these models offer deeper insights if their assumptions and resulting data can be correlated to experimental findings, and it is these correlations that the book focuses on. As the outcome of workshops on anesthesia and sleep at the 2007 and 2009 Computational Neuroscience Conferences in Toronto and Berlin, the chapters lay out key theoretical issues as well as hot contemporary research topics. It also details experimental techniques on various spatial scales, such as fMRIand EEG-experiments on the macroscopic, and single-neuron and LFP measurements on the microscopic scale - Reviews
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From the reviews:
“This book, which aims to provide an overview of experimental and theoretical concepts explaining the similarities and differences of sleep and anesthesia, grew out of two workshops during the Computational Neuroscience Conferences … . written particularly for graduate students in anesthesiology and sleep science, but it also will be useful to theoretical neuroscientists who are being introduced to sleep and anesthesia. … useful contribution to both the sleep and of anesthesia fields and serves to elucidate their differences and similarities from theoretical and experimental approaches.” (M. Isabel L. Crisostomo, Doody’s Review Service, January, 2012)
“The book offers an in-depth review of the mechanisms underlying sleep and anesthesia and outlines directions for future research. … each chapter on its own is a well-written review of a specific topic that can be read independently. … this book is a well-written, informative overview that achieves the goal of synthesizing and summarizing the cutting-edge research on the topics of sleep and anesthesia. … this volume is an important resource for clinicians and researchers interested in the fields of anesthesiology and sleep research.” (Dian-Shi Wang and Beverley A. Orser, Canadian Journal of Anesthesia, Vol. 59, 2012)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Sleep and Anesthesia
- Book Subtitle
- Neural Correlates in Theory and Experiment
- Editors
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- Axel Hutt
- Series Title
- Springer Series in Computational Neuroscience
- Series Volume
- 15
- Copyright
- 2011
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media, LLC
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-4614-0173-5
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-1-4614-0173-5
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-4614-0172-8
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-4614-3024-7
- Series ISSN
- 2197-1900
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XVI, 260
- Topics
